Three dead as storm pounds Philippines

Tacloban: Three persons were killed and tens of thousands were driven from their homes by floods as Tropical Storm Kai-Tak pounded the eastern Philippines on Saturday, cutting off power and triggering landslides. Kai-Tak, packing gusts of up to 110 kmph, hit the country’s third-largest island Samar in the afternoon. Officials reported three deaths on neighbouring Leyte island — a two-year-old boy who drowned in Mahaplag, a woman buried by a landslide and another person who fell into a flooded manhole in Ormoc city. AFP