MANILA: The death toll rose to six yesterday from a tropical storm battering the northern Philippines, officials said. Many roads and communities were flooded from heavy rains that spawned landslides.
In Manila, government employees were sent home at noon because of rising floodwaters, which were neck-deep in the Santo Nino community in suburban Quezon City. Some roads in the flood-prone suburb of Malabon also were impassable, the Metro Manila Development Authority reported.
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