MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Parma caused widespread flooding and landslides that buried at least two families in the Philippines, then hung threateningly off the coast Sunday drenching the country’s north as well as Taiwan.At least 16 people died when Parma hit the main island of Luzon on Saturday, though the capital, Manila — still awash in floodwaters from a storm barely a week earlier — was spared a new disaster.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Latest typhoon kills 16 in northern Philippines, causes landslides
By The Associated Press
October 3, 2009