Death toll from Philippine storm rises to at least 110
The death toll from a tropical storm which hit the Philippines this week has risen to at least 110 as rescuers continue to recover bodies from under mud, boulders and collapsed homes on Camiguin Island.
At least 80 of those casualties came from the town of Mahinog, where workers have dug mass graves to prevent the spread of disease. Nearly 300 people are still missing following the storm, which battered the Philippines for the second consecutive day yesterday.
Nineteen of the missing were on board a cargo ship which sank in stormy seas off the north-western Philippines.
In central Cebu province, 14 men were trapped when a tunnel collapsed at the country’s largest copper mines.
The storm, nicknamed Lingling, was centred 30 miles north-west of Coron in Palawan, with sustained winds of 65mph and gusts of up to 84mph.
It is currently moving north-west an is expected to gather speed and become a typhoon as it approaches the South China Sea.
