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At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
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Typhoon Bopha
Pacific typhoon in 2012
Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pablo, was a compact but catastrophic tropical cyclone that became the strongest on record to ever affect the Philippine island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (282 km/h).…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Philippines
Country in Southeast Asia
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)