A strong typhoon in the Philippines set off landslides, flooded villages, destroyed houses, downed trees and electrical poles, knocked out power to entire provinces and stranded holiday travelers. At least 28 people are dead and 12 are missing.
Residents walks beside an outrigger and playground equipment that were damaged by Typhoon Phanfone along a coastline 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.
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