The deadli­est typhoo­n to hit the countr­y was Haiyan, which left 7,350 people deadMANILA: The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the southern Philippines has risen to 133 as mudslides wiped out a mountain village and ravaged another town, officials said Saturday. The Philippines is pummeled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. After slicing across Mindanao on Friday, Tembin sped west over the Sulu Sea with gusts of 95 kilometres an hour. Tembin struck less than a week after Tropical Storm Kai-Tak devastated the central Philippines, leaving 54 dead and 24 missing. Tembin is expected to hit the tip of the western island of Palawan late Saturday, the state weather service said.

Source: The Express Tribune December 23, 2017 06:22 UTC