Rescuers scramble to help survivors of Philippines floods; more than 650 killed
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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.
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killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours. forced to carry supplies on foot after roads were cut off and bad weather grounded rescue helicopters.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede. More than 650 people were killed and nearly 400 are missing in the disaster, which was triggered by back-to-back storms.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers dug deeper through the ruins of a storm-battered building in hopes of finding more survivors after four people trapped for 11 days were pulled alive from the rubble.
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Filipinos tried to flee flood-hit towns on Monday as relief supplies ran short and fears about disease mounted after last week&#39;s back-to-back typhoons left a trail of death and destruction.
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The Red Cross launched a public appeal today to help thousands of people left stranded and homeless following a series of powerful typhoons which have claimed more than 500 lives in the Philippines.
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Disease could claim more lives as survivors struggle with the aftermath of a string of vicious storms that left at least 700 dead in the Philippines, health officials said.
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More than 1,000 people have been killed or are missing after mudslides and flash floods devastated three coastal towns in the eastern Philippines, a military spokesman said Thursday.
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REAL, Philippines  - Residents of flood-hit  Philippine towns scrambled to higher ground Thursday as the  most powerful typhoon this year threatened to cause more  destruction after floods and landslides killed up to 600  people.
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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 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of debris.
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PILILIA, Philippines : Another powerful typhoon is bearing down on the eastern Philippines where rescuers are desperately trying to find survivors from floods and landslides that have left nearly 500 dead or missing.
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DARAGA, Philippines -- The Red Cross estimated yesterday that up to 1,000 people may have died in the typhoon that unleashed walls of black mud on entire villages in the Philippines. The country's president declared a state of national calamity.
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Emergency workers are mounting a massive clean-up operation after the strongest typhoon to pound Manila in a decade left a trail of devastation, at least 16 people dead and millions more without power before heading toward Vietnam.
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The United States on Tuesday dispatched about 600 Marines and Navy personnel from Okinawa to help residents in the flood-ravaged Philippines. The Pentagon said tents, water and medical supplies also were being sent.
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A powerful storm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said on Tuesday, and rescuers raced to save people stranded in three coastal towns before a new typhoon strikes the region.
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Real - Philippine rescuers were on Friday digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms, which lashed the country rose to nearly 1 600.
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At least 300 people have died, and another 150 are missing, in floods and landslides unleashed by a storm which struck the northern Philippines.