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Super Typhoon Rai leaves a path of devastation and uncertainty
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Rai is one of the most powerful storms to hit the southern Philippines on record. It's displaced more than 481,000 people and killed at least 375, with 500 missing.
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Super typhoon Rai slams into Philippines | DW
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Death toll from Philippines typhoon passes 20
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Philippines' Typhoon Rai death toll rises further as areas remain cut off from help
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Super Typhoon Rai leaves a path of devastation and uncertainty
Thousands have fled their homes in the Philippines as one of the country's strongest storms of the year made landfall. Officials say some 10,000 villages lie in the projected path of the typhoon.
At least 21 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, officials said Saturday, with "alarming" reports of destruction on islands that bore the brunt of the st…
The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said at least 49 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in just half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to nearly 100.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has reached at least 146, and the governor of an island province especially
The governor of an island province in the central Philippines says at least 63 people have died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112
The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 72 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 146.
By Jinky Jorgio in Manila and Akanksha Sharma, CNN The death toll from Super Typhoon Rai has climbed to at least 75 people, local officials reported Saturday, after the storm wreaked havoc across the Philippines late last week.
At least 75 people have been reported killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, official tallies showed Sunday, as efforts to deliver water and food to devastated islands ramp…
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year rose to 108, official tallies showed Sunday, as efforts to deliver water and food to devastated islands intensified.
The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112.
Before it exited into the South China Sea on Friday, Typhoon Rai walloped the group of islands with sustained winds of 121 mph and gusts as high as 168 mph.
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has surpassed 200, the national police said Monday, making it one of the deadliest storms to hit the country in recent years…
