Landslides and flooding killed 31 people as heavy rain from an approaching storm lashed the southern Philippines.
The storm unleashed flash floods carrying uprooted trees, rocks and mud overnight in mainly rural communities around Cotabato, a city of 300,000 people on Mindanao island, the AFP reported.
An average of 20 typhoons and storms strike the Philippines each year, killing people and livestock and destroying farms, houses, roads and bridges, although the south is rarely hit.
Scientists have warned that storms are becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer because of climate change.
Source: Jordan News Agency