Tornado hurts 1, destroys 28 houses in Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – A powerful tornado hit Barangay (village) Taluksangay here at 7 p.m. Wednesday, wounding one person, destroying at least 28 houses and sweeping away three small bancas.
Lilibeth Nuno Veloso, a village councilor of Taluksangay, said 48 families evacuated their homes and the local government has been attending to them since.
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Engineer Rommel Allan Labayog of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology unit in Zamboanga, said a tornado on water hit Taluksangay.
Veloso said villagers scampered for safety when the twister hit the coastal area of the barangay.
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