SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES ? Two members of a mountaineering club in Quezon City died after a strong current swept them while their group was crossing a creek in Barangay Pundaquit in San Antonio town on Sunday.

One of their companions was reported missing while nine others were rescued. They belonged to the AMCI Mountaineers Club based in Metro Manila, police said.

The bodies of Joseph Felarca and Jhoan Pimentel were recovered on Sunday and Monday, according to Zambales police director Senior Supt. Rolando Felix.

Search was ongoing on Monday for Thaddeus Reantaso, he said.

Erwell Tabernas, Pundaquit barangay captain, said the group went to the Annawangin beach south of the village but they encountered swollen creeks on their way back to the town proper at 12:30 p.m. Typhoon ?Frank? was crossing Zambales at that time, carrying strong rains and winds.

In La Union, 21 fishermen from Agoo town were reported missing since 4 a.m. Sunday when they went fishing in the Lingayen Gulf, reports reaching the provincial police on Monday said.

La Union police director Supt. Noli Taliño said the fishermen, residents of San Nicolas West and Balwarte in Agoo, were on four boats.

Taliño said their families reported to the police that the fishermen failed to return home on Sunday. He asked police officials in Pangasinan and La Union to relay the information on the missing fishermen to police and local officials in coastal towns along the Lingayen Gulf and report any sighting of the missing boats or the fishermen.

Evacuations

In Pangasinan, 179 families from different villages in Dagupan City were evacuated on Sunday night as the typhoon passed through Pangasinan.

The provincial disaster coordinating council (PDCC) said four school buildings lost their roofs in the island town of Anda and a classroom was damaged in Mapandan town.

?We are thankful that the typhoon did not cause so much damage in the province,? said Orpheus Velasco, provincial information officer.

Pangasinan was still recovering from the heavy beating from tropical storm ?Cosme? on May 17, when crops, fisheries and property worth P4.3 billion were destroyed.

Velasco said the PDCC was monitoring the province?s rivers after the Agno River Flood Forecasting and Warning Center in Rosales town warned that the continuous rains could raise water levels in the river basin.

Velasco said the Sinocalan and Tagamusing rivers were swollen and threatened to submerge low-lying areas of Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Binmaley and Binalonan towns and the cities of Dagupan and Urdaneta.

In Central Luzon, Chief Supt. Errol Pan, regional police director and chair of the regional disaster coordinating council (RDCC), said the number of evacuees in the region on Monday reached 4,830 people, mostly from Bulacan.

Neri Amparo, regional chief of the Office of the Civil Defense, said the province hardest hit by Frank was Bulacan.

As of late Sunday, 10 towns and 71 villages in Bulacan were under two to three feet of floodwater. Reports from Cesar Villa, Tonette Orejas and Carmela Reyes, and Yolanda Sotelo-Fuertes and Gabriel Cardinoza, Inquirer Northern Luzon