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A mass burial is being organised in the Philippines for scores killed by flash floods, which left at least 650 dead on the southern island of Mindanao.

The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flash-flood victims Monday to minimise the health risk from rotting cadavers after a disaster that has left many hundreds dead or missing.

MORE than 650 people were killed and 800 are still missing after flash floods and landslides hit the ­southern Philippines.

A tropical storm devastated two major cities in Mindanao, the Philippines, in the early hours of Saturday, 17 December, killing at least 700 people. Around 800 others are missing. The two cities, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan are very familiar to many Colu…

The Philippine National Red Cross says that 652 people are now known to have died and another 800 are missing after flash floods in the Philippines.

Rescuers searched for more than 450 people still missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 500 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with deadly storms.

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (Reuters) – Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepar…

Rescuers are continuing the search for survivors after floods killed more than 400 people and left many others missing in the southern Philippines.

Almost 500 people have been killed by Typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines according to the country’s Red Cross humanitarian organisation. Authorities says the death toll could rise further as an unknown number of people are missing.

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