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Published 30 Nov, -0001 12:00am

Six dead in Philippines as typhoon Cimaron heads to Vietnam

More than 2,100 people were still in evacuation centres in several provinces due to flooding and fear of landslides.
Two people were killed by landslides in the northern province of Benguet while three drowned and another was killed by a falling tree, officials said.
Two others are still missing.
Power remains out in parts of northern Luzon after powerlines were brought down, the civil defence office said, adding that damage to infrastructure and agriculture had been initially estimated at about 140 million pesos (2.78 million dollars.)
Cimaron, packing winds of up to 230 kilometres (143 miles) per hour and torrential rain, slammed into the eastern coast of the northern Philippines late Sunday and moved across the island on Monday.
The weather bureau said Cimaron was now charting a course across the South China Sea toward the eastern coast of Vietnam but had weakened, with gusts of up to 150 kilometres per hour.
Officials have expressed relief that there were far fewer deaths this time than earlier this month, when Typhoon Xangsane pounded northern Luzon, killing more than 200 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2006

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