Landslides Add to Philippines' Storm Toll

Typhoon Parma caused widespread flooding and landslides that buried at least two families in the Philippines, then hung threateningly off the coast Sunday drenching the country's north as well as Taiwan.

At least 16 people died when Parma hit the main island of Luzon on Saturday, though Manila - still awash in floodwaters from a storm barely a week earlier - was spared a new disaster.

In Benguet province, a family of five, including a 1-year-old boy, died when their home was buried in a landslide, local police Senior Superintendent Loreto Espineli told The Associated Press. Seven people, including another family of five, were buried in a nearby village, he said.

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