Death toll from Typhoon Doksuri rises to six after a mother and her three children were killed in a landslide that struck their house in the Philippines' Buguias municipality
The death toll from a typhoon in the northern Philippines has risen to six, official figures showed, as the storm swept towards southeastern China.
Strong winds and heavy rain pummelled the lightly populated Babuyan islands and northern provinces, triggering flooding and landslides. The typhoon’s centre will not hit Taiwan’s mainland, but its outlying bands will still bring stronger winds and rains on Thursday afternoon. Hualien and Taitung counties in the east have also shuttered schools and offices. Kaohsuing also evacuated some 300 residents who lived in a mountainous part of the district, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.Doksuri had been a super typhoon as it swept across the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday but weakened as it neared the Philippines.
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