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Condolences to Philippines over Typhoon Mangkhut
VGP – State President Tran Dai Quang and PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 18 extended their condolences to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over huge human and property losses caused by Typhoon Mangkhut in the country.
September 19, 2018 10:06 AM GMT+7
On the same day, Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh sent his sympathies to Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alan Peter S. Cayetano.
By the end of September 17, the death toll in the Philippines amounted to 65. There were about 33 people injured and some 45 still unaccounted for.
The typhoon triggered a total of 81 landslides and 13 flooding incidents in the Cordillera Administrative Region alone. It also destroyed many houses and forced over 60,000 households in the northern region of the Philippines to be evacuated.