(CLO) The death toll and missing persons from the severe flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Trami in the Philippines have risen to at least 126. The Philippine president said on Saturday that many areas remain isolated with numerous people in need of rescue.
Specifically, before heading towards the South China Sea and making landfall in central Vietnam, Typhoon Trami had already killed at least 85 people and left 41 others missing in the Philippines.
This is one of the most severe storms to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago this year, according to the Philippines' disaster response agency. The death toll is expected to rise as reports emerge from previously isolated areas.
Rescue workers search for bodies after a landslide caused by Typhoon Trami in Batangas province, Philippines, on October 26. Photo: AP
Dozens of police officers, firefighters, and other rescue workers, aided by three excavators and sniffer dogs, unearthed one of the last two missing villagers in the lakeside town of Talisay in Batangas province on Saturday.
At a basketball practice room near the town center, more than a dozen white coffins lay side by side for the bodies of those found in the mud, boulders, and fallen trees on the slopes of a mountain range Thursday afternoon in the village of Sampaloc in Talisay.
President Ferdinand Marcos, who toured another hard-hit area southeast of Manila on Saturday, said the unusually heavy rainfall caused by the typhoon had exceeded the flood control capacity in the provinces devastated by Typhoon Trami.
An area devastated by landslides during Typhoon Trami in Batangas province, Philippines, on October 26. Photo: AP
Philippine authorities said more than 5 million people were affected in the path of the typhoon, with nearly half a million seeking refuge in over 6,300 emergency shelters across several provinces.
Each year, around 20 typhoons strike the Philippines. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical storms on record, killed or left more than 7,300 people missing and flattened entire villages.
Bui Huy (according to AP)
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