Oct 31st, 2009 - Al Jazeera English
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Typhoon Mirinae has killed at least two people and forced thousands to evacuate, after making landfall in the eastern Philippines, officials have said.
The victims drowned in floods in Laguna province just south of Manila, the capital, the local disaster monitoring office said on Saturday.
In Laguna, military and police rescue boats worked to save people who were trapped on rooftops by a flashflood.
The typhoon, with winds of up to 185 kilometres (115 miles) an hour, was the third major storm to hit the Philippines' main island of Luzon in just five weeks.
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