International Desk : At least 6 people killed after Typhoon Doksuri lashed southern Taiwan on Thursday after battering the Philippines, reports Aljazeera.
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The storm was heading towards the southern Taiwan Strait with maximum winds of 191km (118 miles) per hour on Thursday morning.
Doksuri has lost some of its strength since it lashed the northern Philippine coastline on Wednesday, bursting banks of rivers, flooding low-lying villages and unleashing dozens of landslides.
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The country's , officials said in the Buguias town in Benguet province, a landslide buried a house killing a mother, her child and two other children. In the nearby resort city of Baguio, a 17-year-old teen was killed when soil loosened by heavy rains buried his house.
In Isabela province, also in the north, a woman selling bread on a bicycle cart died when she was hit in the head by a falling coconut tree, a police report said.
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In Taiwan on Thursday, the weather bureau issued wind and rain warnings for the southern part of the island, including the major port city of Kaohsiung where businesses and schools were closed and landslide warnings issued.
All domestic flights were suspended on the island while a handful of international flights were cancelled. Railway services between southern and eastern Taiwan were shut.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated as a precaution, mostly in the mountainous southern and eastern Taiwan, where nearly 0.7 metres of rainfall was recorded in some areas and up to one metre of rain was forecast.
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The storm had cut power from more than 15,700 households across Taiwan, but the majority of them had since been restored.
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