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Three people were killed and more than 5,000 displaced in the first tropical storm to batter the Philippines this year, police and the national disaster agency said on Monday. The three fatalities were all from the province of Quezon, about 100 kilometres south-east of Manila, which bore the brunt of tropical storm Ewiniar’s strong winds and heavy rains. One of the dead was a man who was sleeping inside his hut in the town of San Antonio in Quezon province on Sunday when a tree fell on it, hitting him, police said. A 14-year-old boy also died after being hit by a falling tree in Lucena City on…

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