After firestorm, floodwaters devastate Zamboanga City

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Typhoon Quedan has left a trail of destruction in a large part of Zamboanga City, flooding many areas on Tuesday that affected thousands of people and paralyzing the local economy just as it is slowly picking up the pieces left by three weeks of fierce fighting between security forces and separatist rebels.

But bad weather continues because of the inter-tropical convergence zone, which severely affected central and southern Philippines where nearly 93,000 people had been displaced or affected by flash floods. Weather experts are also monitoring a new typhoon code named Danas.