Typhoon Utor leaves seven dead or missing in Philippines
By Maria Twink,WNS Philippines Correspondent
MANILA - Typhoon Utor departed the central Philippines overnight leaving three people dead, four missing, nearly 90,000 evacuated and two key regional summits in disarray, officials said Monday. The mass evacuations were ordered to avoid a repeat of the devastation of supertyphoon Durian a week earlier which triggered huge mudslides in the Bicol region that swamped entire villages, leaving more than 1,000 dead or missing. Utor was alco cited by the government as the main reason it postponed two summits in the central island of Cebu in the first half of the week, although other sources said the real reason may have been a terror attack threat.
Three people, including two children, were killed in the central islands, one by a falling tree and another when a boat capsized. Four more are missing and feared dead in the city of Roxas after being swept away. Radio reports said as many as 15 others could be missing near the central resort island of Boracay but civil defense officials could not confirm this. Parts of the central islands were still without power.
At 4:00 am Monday, (2000 GMT Sunday) the typhoon, packing maximum winds of 120 kilometers (74.4 miles) per hour, was charted 220 kilometers northwest of the western Philippine island of Palawan, moving toward the South China Sea.
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