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Floods kill 2 French citizens, 8 others
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by Babel-Fish | August 7, 2009 at 04:27 am
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MANILA (Updated 3 p.m.)-- Two French tourists were among at least 10 people killed when heavy rains collapsed an earthen dike and fed landslides and floods that deluged towns and villages in the northern Philippines, officials said Friday.
A group of French and South Koreans were traveling on Mount Pinatubo on Thursday in three vehicles when a landslide blocked their path, trapping one of the cars, said Tarlac Provincial Governor Victor Yap.
Three French nationals were swept away in a flash flood and the bodies of two of them were recovered early Friday. One remains missing, Yap said.
A Filipino guide also was killed, he said. The rest of the group was safe.
This is one of the biggest problems in the rainy season, tropical storms nearly always carry bad tidings like this one
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at 11:47 on August 7th, 2009
Sad news.
This was a huge storm.
at 19:29 on August 8th, 2009
Sadly more have died and many of the bad news stories do not meet media attention, such as the two guys that died crossing a local bridge near Dumaguete City last week another Filipino guy was wash down river and was rescued, he was admitted to hospital I hope he recovers. Flash floods are very dangerous and there has been many this year. The problem also is that some Filipino's will try to cross rivers when they are high and flooded. To me it seems a death wish?