Another typhoon has hit the Philip­pines, the fourth one in a month. The lat­est named Typhoon Miri­nae has killed five peo­ple and swept away hun­dreds of homes. This typhoon strikes just when peo­ple who were dis­placed ear­lier were con­sid­er­ing return­ing home.

From Relief Web, this Deutsche Presse Agen­tur story gives us the details of the lat­est storm.

Hun­dreds of houses in shore areas were swept away by huge waves when Typhoon Miri­nae hit land late Fri­day in Que­zon province, 120 kilo­me­tres south-east of Manila.

An 8-year-old girl and a 78-year-old woman drowned before dawn on Sat­ur­day when a river sud­denly rose in Pagsan­jan town in Laguna province, 55 kilo­me­tres south of Manila, accord­ing to town Mayor Emilio Ramon Ejercito III.

He blamed the sud­den rise of the river on a release by a nearby dam of a hydro­elec­tric power plant.

Two more peo­ple were killed in Daet town in Camarines Norte province, while one drowned in Pililia town in Rizal province.

Four peo­ple were miss­ing, includ­ing a man and his 3-year-old son whose car fell into a river after a bridge col­lapsed in Batan­gas City.

Lieu­tenant Colonel Ernesto Tor­res, spokesman of the National Dis­as­ter Coor­di­nat­ing Coun­cil (NDCC), said sev­eral roads in the eastern provinces of Laguna, Rizal, Que­zon and Camarines Norte were impass­able due to landslides.

He added that sev­eral bridges col­lapsed or were swept away by floodwaters.

Tor­res said Miri­nae caused wide­spread power out­ages in the east­ern provinces of Camarines Norte, Que­zon, Rizal, Cavite, Batan­gas and the sub­urbs of Manila.

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