RP storm claims four lives

RP storm claims four lives

MANILA (AFP): Four people were killed on Thursday and 12,500 were displaced as a storm battered the main Philippine island of Luzon, the Red Cross said.

A mother and her daughter were crushed to death by a wall which fell on their house in the town of Valenzuela north of Manila while two men drowned at a swollen creek in the northern Manila district of Novaliches, a Red Cross spokesman said.

He said floodwaters which engulfed parts of Manila and nearby provinces forced 12,504 people to evacuate to higher ground.