Typhoon Bopha heading for southern Philippines [1]

CNN.com - 12/03/12, By Jethro Mullen

• Typhooon Bopha is expected to hit the island of Mindanao on Tuesday morning
• It carries wind gusts as strong as 210 kph (130 mph)
• The Philippine weather agency warns of flash floods, landslides and possible storm surge
• The typhoon comes almost a year after a storm killed more than 1,200 people on Mindanao
  
  

(CNN) -- A powerful typhoon is bearing down on the southern Philippines, threatening to bring fresh destruction to a country that has suffered a series of severe weather-related disasters in the past year.

Typhoon Bopha was heading toward the large Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday, almost a year after a tropical storm devastated areas on the island's north coast, leaving more than 1,200 people dead.

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