Five people including a four-year old girl died while thousands fled to evacuation centres set up mostly in public schools as typhoon Utor ravaged southern Philippines, downing power lines, radio reports said yesterday. Utor reaching 136 kilometres per hour, killed a four-year-old girl in Tacloban City and four others in Capiz while injuring six in the Visayas region. Tacloban police identified the four-year-old girl as April Felicen who was pinned to death by a falling tree that hit her home and also injured her six-year-old brother John Rey.
| 66,787 people, mostly in Albay province, fled their damaged homes and are now staying in evacuation centres. |
The NDCC said more than 66,787 people, mostly in Albay province, fled their damaged homes and are now staying in evacuation centres. Albay was the hardest hit by a previous typhoon that buried villages and left more than 1,000 people dead or missing. Utor displaced 3,000 families and destroyed infrastructure estimated at $653,061 in different parts of eastern Visayas alone, according to initial reports.