400 killed by flash floods in Philippines
MANILA -- Flash floods devastated a southern region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing more than 400 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn Saturday with overturned vehicles and toppled trees.
Most of the victims were asleep Friday when floodwaters cascaded from the mountains after 12 hours of rain from a late-season tropical storm in the Mindanao region. The area is unaccustomed to the typhoons that are common elsewhere in the nation of islands. -- AP
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