Heavy rains pounded the Philippine capital yesterday, prompting a new danger alert as emergency workers rushed food, water and clothes to almost one million people through streets turned into rivers after 11 straight days of monsoon downpour.
About 60% of Manila, a metropolis of about 12 million people, remained flooded, Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster agency, said.
Danger to the population was compounded by a one-hour downpour of 2.15 inches yesterday, just shy of a record 2.23in that hit the city in one hour in September 2009, killing more than 700 people and causing $1 billion (£640 million) of property damage.
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