At least 51 people were killed while 21 others remain missing as tropical storm Ondoy hit the Philippines and brought massive flood on Saturday, the government disasters relief agency said Sunday.

Ondoy, made the landfall at northeastern Philippine coast at Saturday noon. It packed winds up to 85 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and is moving west-northwest at a speed of 13 kph. The state weather bureau said the storm triggered an epic rainfall in Metro Manila in six hours ended 2 p.m. Saturday, breaking the 1967-record of 334 millimetersin a 24-hour period.


The disasters relief agency said 45 barangays (or villages) in the national capital region and 69 villages in just two neighboring provinces were "heavily flooded" while landslide occurred in at least seven areas across the central and southern Luzon island.Six were recorded in the national capital while 23 were killed in Tanay, a city to the east of Metro Manila, registering the highest casualties in a single city due to Kestana's devastation.The partial total of evacuees has reached 8,388 families, or 41,205 people, located in 92 evacuation centers.