The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has exceeded 100 and the president said many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue.
has exceeded 100 and the president said on Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue.
A father, who was waiting for word on his missing 14-year-old daughter, wept as rescuers placed the remains in a black body bag. Distraught, he followed police officers, who carried the body bag down a mud-strewn village alley to a police van when one weeping resident approaching him to express her sympathies.
In a nearby basketball gym at the town centre, more than a dozen white coffins were laid side by side, bearing the remains of those found in the heaps of mud, boulders and trees that cascaded on Thursday afternoon down the steep slope of a wooded ridge in Talisay's Sampaloc village. His administration, Marcos said, would plan to start work on a major flood control project that can meet the unprecedented threats posed by climate change.
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