A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines has left at least 20 people dead and forced thousands to flee their homes. Typhoon Phanfone devastated Christmas celebrations in the predominantly Catholic country.
A resident checks his home damaged by Typhoon Phanfone in Ormoc city, central Philippines on Thursday Dec. 26, 2019. The typhoon left over a dozen dead and many homeless.
“You can’t see anybody because there was a total blackout, you can’t hear anything. The town looked like a ghost town,” Cindy Ferrer of the regional Office of the Civil Defense said by phone. A father, his three children and another relative were among those missing in hard-hit Iloilo province after a swollen river inundated their shanty, officials said.
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