Storm threat looms in RP

Storm threat looms in RP

MANILA (Reuters); The Philippines said on Monday that another potentially bad storm was approaching the archipelago as authorities put the final death toll from last week's Typhoon Utor at 128.

In an advisory, the Philippine weather bureau said a tropical depression with winds of up to 55 kilometers per hour was spotted 480 km east-southeast of Aparri, Cagayan, at 0200 GMT (9 a.m. Jakarta time) on Monday.

"Tropical depression Gorio has drifted northward for the past six hours but remains a threat to extreme northern Luzon," it said.

It said the weather disturbance could induce monsoon rains over the western and southern sections of Luzon and western portion of Visayas island.