Death toll from Philippines typhoon reaches 29

The death toll from Typhoon Nanmadol that hit the Philippines late last week rose to 29 early on Thursday, the GMA News portal said. Previous reports put the number of those killed by the storm at 22. The damage caused by the typhoon, which passed over the Philippines en route to Taiwan, bringing tropical rains and winds gusted to 38 m/s, has been estimated at 1.4 billion Philippine pesos (more than $3 million). On Wednesday night, a state of calamity was declared in Baguio, a city of 300,000, where five people were killed when a section of a decommissioned dump collapsed onto residential houses on Saturday. About 20 storms and typhoons hit the Philippines each year during the rainy season from June to December. Tropical storm Huanin struck the Philippines in late July, killing 24 people. In 1991, a typhoon killed 6,000 people on the Philippine island of Leyte.