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Monday, May 4, 2009

Tropical storm batters Philippines

At least 11 people have been killed after a typhoon caused landslides and swamped farmland in the northeast of Philippines.Nine other people were still missing on Sunday after piles of mud and debris swept into a coastal village in Maganelles, burying 12 houses, officials said.Troops, police and villagers used shovels and their hands to search for missing people feared buried, Bernardo Alejandro, a regional disaster official, told the Associated Press news agency.Nine bodies, including those of two children, have been recovered.

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