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Friday, December 03, 2004, 12:00 A.M. Pacific "Typhoon hits Philippines; previous storm kills scores"By Seattle Times news services MARAGUNDON, Philippines — "A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines today, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people. There was an unconfirmed report that more than 1,000 were dead or unaccounted for from the typhoon that hit the Philippines earlier this week. Civil defense officials said at least 422 people were confirmed dead and another 177 missing. The military...

QUEZON PROVINCE, Philippines, Nov 30 - "More than 300 people died after flash floods and landslides devastated three coastal towns and left swathes of the northern Philippines under water on Tuesday. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers were unable to reach areas cut off by huge mudslides and fast-moving floodwater in the wake of tropical depression Winnie and as the country braced for another powerful storm. At least 306 people died in the towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar in Quezon province, about 80 km (50 miles) east of Manila, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman told...