2 dead, 44 missing as Philippines pounded
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A POWERFUL typhoon battered the northern Philippines yesterday, toppling power lines and dumping heavy rain across cities and food-growing plains. The storm left at least two people dead and 44 missing.
Typhoon Utor, described as the strongest globally this year, slammed ashore in mountainous eastern Aurora Province with sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 210 kph.
Footage from the ABS-CBN TV network showed a woman swept away by a raging river in neighboring Isabela Province. The woman waved her hands for help as she struggled to hang on to debris while being buffeted by huge waves in the muddy waters. It was not known what happened to her.
“She has not been found, so she is missing,” said Norma Talosig, a regional civil defense director.
She said the woman lived alone in a low-lying area and had refused to be evacuated.
Talosig said that in northern Nueva Vizcaya Province, a 53-year-old farmer drowned while trying to rescue his water buffalo from a swift-moving flood. The animal survived.
In mountainous Benguet Province, a 22-year-old man died on the way to a hospital after he was pulled from a landslide that hit a canal he was clearing, said a regional civil defense official.
The typhoon triggered waves of up to 2.5 meters high and left scores of fishermen missing.
In northern Pangasinan Province, 25 fishermen on three boats failed to return home, said a police spokesman.
Eighteen other fishermen from the eastern provinces of Catanduanes and Camarines Norte were also unaccounted for. Authorities were hoping they took shelter in coves and nearby islands.
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