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Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines have killed an estimated 100 people. The tragedy comes after a lingering storm and excess water from dams turned a portion of one province into a river.

According to the regional Office of Civil Defense, about 100 people are feared dead in landslides in two provinces along a mountain range about 200 kilometers north of Manila. The latest calamity brought the cumulative death toll in the Philippines' worst flooding in 40 years to more than 400 people. Back-to-back storms started pounding the country's north on September 26th.

Forecasters say Tropical Depression Parma lingered off the northeastern coast for more than a week, dumping more rain overnight. The government's disaster relief agency says it has requested that the US Embassy re-deploy hundreds of American troops ... from the massive clean-up in and around the capital to the poorer flood-hit areas in the north.