{"id":29354,"date":"2012-12-04T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T10:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=29354"},"modified":"2012-12-04T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T10:39:43","slug":"philippines-typhoon-bophaa-powerful-typhoon-has-smashed-into-the-southern-philippines-asia-news-video-29354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/philippines-typhoon-bophaa-powerful-typhoon-has-smashed-into-the-southern-philippines-asia-news-video-29354\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Typhoon Bopha:A powerful typhoon has smashed into the southern Philippines \/ Asia News Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three people are hit by falling trees and another person has a heart attack as Bopha smashes into the country’s south.<\/h1>\n

Three people have been hit by falling trees, while another person had a heart attack as the typhoon lashed Mindanao island, said civil defence chief Benito Ramos, adding that their condition was not known.<\/p>\n

“So far, casualties have been minimal. We attribute this to the co-operation of our people and the efforts of local officials,” Mr Ramos told reporters.<\/p>\n

The storm weakened slightly after making landfall early on Tuesday and was moving northwest.<\/p>\n

Power has been cut off in at least eight municipalities, while parts of Agusan del Sur province are flooded, Mr Ramos said.<\/p>\n

Winds have also blown roofs off some buildings on Mindanao.<\/p>\n

The commercial centre of Cagayan de Oro, a city of 600,000 people, was hit by flooding as rivers overflowed.<\/p>\n

Liza Mazo, regional civil defence official, said power was cut to reduce the risk of fires and electrocutions.<\/p>\n

Cagayan de Oro mayor Vicente Emano said on ABS-CBN television that police forcibly evacuated residents of low-lying areas after they refused to join thousands of others who had sought refuge at government shelters.<\/p>\n

Schools were shut in Mindanao and across large areas of the central Philippines, with some of the schoolrooms serving as evacuation centres or to store relief supplies.<\/p>\n

In the mountainous Compostela Valley, authorities halted mining operations and ordered villagers to evacuate to prevent a repeat of deadly losses from landslides and the collapse of mine tunnels seen in recent storms.<\/p>\n

Bopha, which has a 373-mile (600-km) wide rain band, was expected to barrel across southern and central provinces before blowing out into the South China Sea on Thursday, forecasters said.<\/p>\n

The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons a year, with 1,500 deaths recorded last year from cyclones that affected nearly a tenth of the total population by government count.<\/p>\n

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