Typhoon Parma leaves 16 dead and dozens of Filipino villages flooded

LANDSLIDES buried two families in the Philippines as they sheltered in their homes from Asia’s latest deadly typhoon, which killed at least 16 people and left more than a dozen villages flooded yesterday.

Typhoon Parma cut a destructive path across the northern Philippines on Saturday but spared the capital, Manila. It headed out to sea, and late yesterday was less than 100 kilometres off the coast, where it was expected to stay for the next three days, forecasters said.

That was close enough to Taiwan to cause heavy rain on the island, where troops were evacuating villages and loading sandbags in preparation for possible flooding.