Thursday, August 21, 2008
Typhoon Karen leaves 7 people dead (12:41 p.m.)
MANILA -- Rains from Typhoon Karen (international codename: Nuri) triggered a series of landslides and floods in the northern Philippines, killing seven people before the storm moved on Thursday toward Hong Kong.
Karen, packing winds of 87 miles (140 kilometers) per hour and gusts of up to 106 mph (170 kph), was forecast to make landfall over
Guangdong province, just east of Hong Kong on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Rains, winds and flooding on Wednesday caused landslides in the mountainous northern Philippine provinces but the weather cleared
Thursday.
The Office of Civil Defense said three brothers aged 1, 3 and 10 years were killed when their house in Itogon township in Benguet
province was swept away.
Another landslide in Itogon killed a 72-year-old woman in her kitchen. Itogon is about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Manila.
Two other people died in landslides and one was killed by a fallen tree, the civil defense said. One person was reported
missing.(AP)
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