Tropical Storm Nalgi, which threatens the capital Manila, arrived in the Philippines yesterday after being preceded by floods and landslides that have killed at least 45 people, according to new, reduced official figures.
Storm Nalgi hit the main island of Luzon in the Philippines on Saturday with winds of 95 kilometers per hour as it made landfall after dawn.
But the destruction began long before the storm hit land.
Heavy rains flooded rural areas in southern Mindanao on Thursday, followed by deadly landslides and flooding on Friday.
The government revised the official death toll from the storm in the afternoon from 72 to 45. Civil defense officials admitted that rescuers sent on Friday to the flooded south of the country miscalculated, as some casualties were double-counted.
