Logging blamed as Philippines flood toll rises
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Phillipines officials say the death toll from landslides and floods unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines has exceeded 300.
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Landslides and flash floods caused by a powerful storm Wednesday killed more than 400 people. âAnother 177 people are still missing after typhoon Winnie deluged Quezon province, about 64 kilometres east
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MANILA, Philippines -- Vast areas of northern Philippines were inundated after a week of heavy monsoon rains, and the death toll in the flooding climbed to 35, disaster relief officials said Monday.
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During the past two weeks heavy storms and typhoons have rocked the Philippines killing and injuring people. As a result at least 640 dead and about 400 people missing in the northern Philippines.
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MAUBAN, Philippines  - Rescuers dug with their  bare hands on Wednesday to find survivors from landslides and  floods that killed up to 500 people in a part of the northern  Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon over the next 48 hours.
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Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides have killed more than 300 people in the storm-swept Philippines, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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MANILA: Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 26 people in the northern and central Philippines, disaster officials said on Tuesday, a week after storms left about 160 dead or missing.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties Friday as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines, revealing the magnitude of a disaster
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The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to nearly 340 with 150 others missing Tuesday, after a second rainstorm hit a region still reeling from last week's deadly typhoon.
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The death toll from Typhoon Aere today rose to 34 after a mudslide killed 15 villagers in Taiwan and five people were reported to have died in the Philippines.
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The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to nearly 350 with 150 others missing yesterday, most of them from a region still reeling from last week&#39;s deadly typhoon.
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered a renewed crackdown on illegal logging, as the toll from a series of flash floods and landslides spawned by a tropical storm left hits almost 500 people dead or missing.
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Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 100 people, most buried alive under tonnes of debris, officials said.
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Nearly a thousand people are dead or missing in flash floods and landslides that have devastated a large section of the northern Philippines, rescue officials said.
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Heavy rain from super-typhoon Durian has caused mudslides that smothered dozens of villages in the eastern Philippines, killing 388 according to the Red Cross.
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Massive and widespread flooding and landslides have left around 800,000 people in need of help and more than1,000 people dead or missing since the most recent of a series of typhoons hit the Philippines.
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REAL, Philippines  - Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as flash floods began to recede, revealing the magnitude of a disaster triggered by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.