days after it was battered by deadly Super Typhoon Ragasa. Civil defence officials in the Bicol region in the south of Luzon island said three people were killed when walls collapsed and trees were uprooted by Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi, which is sweeping west by northwest at sustained speeds of 110 kilometres (70 miles) per hour. Evacuees in one province took cover under pews as the roof of a church where they were sheltering was ripped apart by the storm. Jerome Martinez, a municipal engineer in southern Luzon's Masbate province, told AFP that the wind destroyed the door, windows and ceiling of the church at around 4:00 am. "That's one of the strongest winds I've ever experienced," Martinez said, adding some children had suffered minor injuries requiring stitches. "I think more people will have to evacuate still because many houses were destroyed and many roofs were blown away. They are now blocking the streets and roads," he said. Government officials also raised the death toll from Super Typhoon Ragasa, which swept across the northern Philippines this week on its way to China, to 14, with thousands still displaced. Ragasa also killed at least 14 people in Taiwan, and left 22 missing, after its torrential rains caused a barrier lake to burst. Philippine civil defence official Bernardo Alejandro told a news briefing that 400,000 people had been evacuated nationwide in the face of the new tropical storm. (BSSnews)