Friday, October 9, 2009

Homework-Mudslides in the Phillipines


Read the story. Answer the questions.
MANILA, Philippines – Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and get to  more than 160 bodies from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines.

The latest calamity brought the total number of dead people to more than 450 from the Philippines' worst flooding in 40 years after back-to-back storms started pounding the country's north on Sept. 26.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) How many bodies did the rescuers get from the buried towns?
4) How many dead people are there in total?

Info and pic from AP

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