Typhoon Parma leaves Philippines, heads for Taiwan

(NECN/ABS-CBN/ETTV/APTV) – Landslides buried two families in the Philippines as they sheltered in their homes from Asia’s latest deadly typhoon, which killed at least 16 people and left more than a dozen flooded villages cut off on Sunday. Police Senior Superintendent Loreto Espineli said a family of five, including a 1-year-old boy, died when their home in Benguet province was buried as Typhoon Parma hit on Saturday. Seven people, including another family of five, were buried in a nearby village, he said. Officials had earlier listed four people as being killed in the typhoon, which cut a destructive path across the northern Philippines but spared the capital, Manila. Parma hit just eight days after an earlier storm left Manila awash in the worst flooding in four decades, killing almost 300 people. Villages devastated by last week’s record flooding were trying to get back to their feet. But first they had to clean their surroundings of tons of trash left by the floodwaters. In Marikina, trash was still hanging from trees where the water rose more than 3-metres (10 feet) along the river. A school swamped by flood waters was trying to clean everything for Monday’s resumption of classes despite losing important items like books and computers, to the floods. And cars, thousands of them, were headed to auto repair shops for mud-clearing and repair. Parma was churning over the South China Sea on Sunday, as troops in southern Taiwan helped to evacuate villages that could be hit next.