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Manila hit by flood disaster
A powerful tropical storm battered the main Philippines island of Luzon on Saturday [AFP]
Published On 26 Sep 2009
26 Sep 2009
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Manila province and 25 others were declared by the government to be in a "state of calamity" [EPA]
More than 40 people were killed in the storm and subsequent flooding [AFP]
Almost 2,000 people were forced to flee their homes and take refuge in evacuation centres as rising waters reached the rooftops of one-storey buildings in some areas [AFP]
Winds of 100kph were brought on by the storm, which dumped 3.4cm of rain on the capital in only six hours [EPA]
The rainfall is the heaviest the capital has seen since 1967 [EPA]