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At least 13 people have died in the Philippines due to tropical storm Yagi, while schools and government offices were closed in Manila and nearby provinces on Tuesday because of expected bad weather.
Thitu Island, also known as Pag-asa Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Pag-asa, lit. 'Island of Hope'); Đảo Thị Tứ (Vietnamese: Đảo Thị Tứ); Zhongye Dao (Chinese: 中业岛/中業島; pinyin: Zhōngyè Dǎo), having an area of 37.2 hectares (92 acres), it is the second largest of the naturally occurring [4] island in Spratly Islands.
Additionally, a woman was killed and her son was critically injured after a wall collapsed and struck their car in Hualien City, [79] three more died in Chiayi County, [80] an elderly man was killed by a landslide in Cishan District, [81] another was killed in a related car accident in Yunlin County, [82] and one more death occurred in Tainan. [83]
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18 August 2012 – 2012 Philippines Piper Seneca crash. A Piper PA-34 Seneca light aircraft with four people on board, including Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, crashed in the sea near Masbate, while flying from Lapu-Lapu City to Naga, Camarines Sur. Robredo and two other occupants were killed in the accident. [25]
A super typhoon is equivalent to a category 5 hurricane, while the current speed of the cyclone puts it in category 4. The weather agency expects the cyclone to go further down in intensity as it ...
A car accident in Taoyuan's Fusing District resulted in four fatalities and two injuries. [84] Approximately 500 people were stranded on the mountainous villages across central and southern Taiwan due to the rainfall caused by Khanun. [85] Khanun caused a total of NT$238 million (US$7.5 million) in agricultural losses. [86]
A late afternoon shooting left at least one man injured at the Tiger’s Express gas station on Lady’s Island. Unrelated to the shooting, a vehicle accident tied up traffic for more than a mile ...