Death toll from Philippine typhoon nears 300
By The Associated Press
This article was published December 5, 2012 at 8:56 a.m.
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NEW BATAAN, Philippines — Stunned parents searching for missing children examined a row of mud-stained bodies covered with banana leaves while survivors dried their soaked belongings on roadsides Wednesday, a day after a powerful typhoon killed nearly 300 people in the southern Philippines.
Officials fear more bodies may be found as rescuers reach hard-hit areas that were isolated by landslides, floods and downed communications.
At least 151 people died in the worst-hit province of Compostela Valley when Typhoon Bopha lashed the region Tuesday, including 78 villagers and soldiers who perished in a flash flood that swamped two emergency shelters and a military camp, provincial spokesman Fe Maestre said.
Disaster-response agencies reported 284 dead in the region and 14 fatalities elsewhere from the typhoon, one of the strongest to hit the country this year.
About 80 people survived the deluge in New Bataan with injuries, and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who visited the town, said 319 others remained missing.
“These were whole families among the registered missing,” Roxas told the ABS-CBN TV network. “Entire families may have been washed away.”
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HOTDEMN says... December 5, 2012 at 12:21 p.m.
OK, everybody that thinks that global warming and climate change are a hoax made up by left wing commies should take this opportunity to go outside on this balmy summer day in December and ask God for forgiveness . Or you can wait for the 5:00 edition of Faux Newz and see how it's all Obamas fault.
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