Typhoon threatens northern RP

Typhoon threatens northern RP

MANILA (AFP): Fifty-five people were killed or went missing
when Typhoon Gloria hit the Philippines, officials said
yesterday, as a more powerful storm roared towards its northern
islands.

The Manila Weather Bureau charted Typhoon Herb at 1,060
kilometers east of Basco town, the capital of the Batanes group
of islands in the country's northernmost tip yesterday morning.

Packing peak winds of 150 kilometers an hour, it was swirling
westerly at 17 kph (10.5 mph) toward Batanes.

The new typhoon triggered rains over the capital and wide
areas of the main island of Luzon, battered last Thursday and
Friday by Gloria before that storm moved off to Taiwan and
southern China.