Flash flood kills 3 in southern Philippines

Philippine disaster officials say at least three people have been killed in a flash flood as a late season tropical storm blew through the southern Mindanao region.

Philippine disaster officials say at least three people have been killed in a flash flood as a late season tropical storm blew through the southern Mindanao region.

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Zamboanga del Norte provincial disaster officer Dennis Tenorio said on Friday that an 80-year-old woman drowned in the flooded first floor of her home on the banks of the swollen Dipolog river in Polanco township early Thursday. He says a 30-year-old man and an 8-year-old boy also drowned.

Weather bureau spokeswoman Venus Valdemoro says Tropical Storm Washi made landfall at 2:30 p.m. (06:30 GMT) on Friday in Davao Oriental province's Banganga township, about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southeast of Manila.

Back-to-back typhoons in September left more than 100 people dead.