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Tropical storm “Cosme” battered the northern regions on Sunday
with powerful winds triggering floods and landslides and displacing
about 6,000 people, relief officials said.
The whole province of Zambales is now under a
state of calamity, reported Gov. Amor Deloso in an interview with
The Manila Times, noting that an estimated P150-million worth of
damages in the town of Sta. Cruz alone, which translates to some
7,000 houses or about 80 percent of the total number of houses in
the municipality, which was the most severely hit.
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