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Usagi toll 30 in Philippine floods

The death toll in the Philippines from floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Usagi has risen to 30.

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Rescuers have dug out more bodies from landslides as floodwaters recede in the Philippines, raising to 30 the death toll from monsoon rains worsened by Typhoon Usagi.

Twenty-seven people were killed after rain-drenched hillsides collapsed on four mountainous villages around the northern town of Subic on Sunday, the civil defence office in the region said.

Two other people drowned, while an elderly man succumbed to the cold, it said in a written update.

Subic is about 80 kilometres (51 miles) northwest of Manila.

The office said a woman and a four-year-old girl remain missing near San Marcelino, close to Subic, where rescuers are still digging in a neighbourhood hit by one of the landslips.

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Monsoon rains worsened by Usagi pounded the Philippines for three days from Saturday, causing floods and landslides that also forced more than 4000 people to flee their inundated homes.


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