Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines, killing 27 people and destroying homes [1]

CNN.com - Jethro Mullen, 12/04/12

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: The death toll from the storm is now 27, the country's official news agency says
• The storm has churned across the southern Philippine island of Mindanao
• It has set off a landslide and blown away fragile houses, officials say
• The typhoon comes almost a year after a storm killed more than 1,200 people on Mindanao

(CNN) -- An intense typhoon thumped into the southern Philippines on Tuesday, destroying homes, setting off a landslide and killing more than two dozen people, authorities said.

Typhoon Bopha struck the large southern island of Mindanao, which is rarely in the direct path of tropical cyclones, fueling fears that it could be as devastating as a storm that killed more than 1,200 people there almost a year ago.

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