At least 68 people have died in a tropical storm in the Philippines due to Storm Usman that resulted in heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides in Manila.
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The weather disturbance/storm locally named Usman struck the Philippines shortly after Christmas, with the number of fatalities expected to rise.
While it did not have powerful winds, it brought heavy rains that caused floods and loosened the soil, triggering landslides in some areas.
Many people failed to take necessary precautions because Usman was not strong enough to be rated as a typhoon under the government’s storm alert system.
An average of 20 typhoons and storms lash the Philippines each year, killing hundreds of people and leaving millions in near-perpetual poverty. The most powerful was Super Typhoon Haiyan which left more than 7,360 people dead or missing across the central Philippines in 2013.
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