AlQadah 9,1436 AH, August 24, 2015, SPA -- Typhoon Goni lashed the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa with heavy rains and winds on Monday, as the death toll rose to 19 in the northern Philippines, AP reported. The latest victims include a 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister who drowned in flash floods. Wind-gusts of 256 kph (159 mph), a local record, flipped over cars and toppled utility poles overnight on the remote Japanese island of Ishigaki, near Taiwan, Japanese media reported. A few people were cut by broken windows. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 180 kph (112 mph), was heading north toward Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu. Sixteen people were missing in the Philippines in addition to the 19 dead. Landslides killed at least 13 people in the mountain province of Benguet, including four gold miners who were pulled out of a huge mudslide that buried three work camps. A dozen miners were missing and more than 100 policemen and fellow miners dug through the mud amid fading hope that survivors would be found, officials said. Six people died elsewhere in the north, and four others were missing, according to the Office of Civil Defense. -- SPA 11:10 LOCAL TIME 08:10 GMT تغريد
