Typhoon Parma returns to Philippines and kills 6

Six people, including three children, were killed in landslides in the northern Philippines on Thursday as tropical storm Parma hit the area for a second time, authorities said.

Parma had initially struck the country as a typhoon on Saturday, then hovered near the northern tip of Luzon island before moving southwards again, hitting the province of Isabela, the government weather station said.

Now weakened to a tropical depression with maximum winds of 55 kilometres (34 miles) per hour, Parma brought heavy rains that caused landslides in the northern mountain province of Benguet.

Two sleeping children and a worker trying to clear roads were killed in landslides in Mankayan town while a mother and her child and a schoolgirl were also buried in landslides in nearby towns, police reported.

The storm's second approach also caused more than 443,800 people to take refuge in evacuation centres for fear that earlier flooding would get worse, the civil defence office said.

Twenty-three people were killed and seven were left missing when Parma hit the north at the weekend.

The first level of a three-step storm alert remains hoisted over Isabela, Benguet and other nearby provinces.

SOURCE: Yahoo

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