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Re: PHOTOs-Typhoon Bopha Hits the Philippines/Maps + Updates
The death toll continues to rise, those poor people are going through a nightmare......
Some photos frm BBC World News, 6 December 2012
In Pictures: Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines
Nasa released an image of the storm as it bore down on the Philippines with heavy rains and wind gusts of 210 km/h (130mph).
About 40,000 people were moved to temporary shelters in schools and village halls before the typhoon made landfall.
Many residents lost relatives as the cyclone devastated a wide swathe of the southern island of Mindanao.
The death toll from the powerful Typhoon Bopha - the strongest to have struck the Philippines this year - is continuing to rise.
Water catchment basins for farms on top of the mountains gave way because of the torrential rains, sending down large volumes of water.
"The waters came so suddenly and unexpectedly, and the winds were so fierce - that compounded the loss of lives," Compostela Valley's provincial governor told the Reuters news agency.
One of the worst hit areas was the Compostela Valley, a mining region where mudslides have destroyed entire villages. Roads to dozens of towns were impassable because of fallen trees and collapsed bridges, rescuers said
exporter of bananas.
The aid effort to help victims of the cyclone has begun with lists of relief supplies circulated at evacuation centres.
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