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Disasters with highest death tolls

Typhoon Bopha

Sunday Nov 25, 2012
Philippines

Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the southern Filipino island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h). The storm caused widespread destruction on Mindanao, leaving thousands of people homeless and killing 1901 people.


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