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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Luige A. del Puerto, Volt Contreras and Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Dante Runes and his wife Florence, nine months pregnant, were the lucky ones. They survived a murderous flood that swept them two towns away as they clung to a water jug and a banana trunk until a boatman rescued them.
Others didn't make it.
Officials said more than 300 people were killed-many of them drowned and some others electrocuted or crushed by landslides-in the wake of Tropical Depression "Winnie" that lashed several provinces of Luzon and Metro Manila with awesome deadliness from Monday until yesterday.
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