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Agence France-Presse

The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines rose to 182 early on Sunday, with 153 people still missing, police said, after rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river.
Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the nation’s second-largest island of Mindanao since Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides.
The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit.
Police, soldiers and volunteers used shovels to dig through mud and debris as they searched for bodies in the village of Dalama on Saturday.
“The river rose and most of the homes were swept away. The village is no longer there,” police officer Gerry Parami said from nearby Tubod town.
Also on Saturday, rescuers retrieved bodies from the Salog River near the town of Sapad.


The bodies in Sapad had been swept downriver from a flooded town upstream called Salvador, said Rando Salvacion, the Sapad town police chief, while authorities in Salvador said other bodies were retrieved upstream.
Tubod, Salvador and Sapad are in Lanao del Norte, which is one of the provinces hardest hit by Tembin. Local police said 127 people have been confirmed dead in the province, with 72 missing.
“The people received ample warnings. But as we are rarely hit by typhoons, people living near rivers did not take them seriously,” said Salvador police chief Wilson Mislores.
The death toll for Mindanao’s Zamboanga peninsula also rose to 28, and police said 81 people were missing after mud and rocks swept down coastal communities in Sibuco and other fishing towns.
Landslides had blocked rescue and relief convoys to the impoverished region, officials said Saturday.
Tembin hit Balabac, a fishing island of 40,000 people in the western Philippines, on Saturday afternoon with gusts of 145km/h, the state weather service said.


One man was killed by a crocodile while he was securing his boat as the storm closed in this week on the western island of Palawan, a police report said on Saturday.
Tembin struck less than a week after Tropical Storm Kai-Tak left 54 dead and 24 missing in the central Philippines, straining the disaster-prone nation’s resources.
“It is unfortunate that another tropical cyclone … made its presence felt so near Christmas,” Harry Roque, President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman, said in a statement.
Roque vowed continued government aid to the affected communities, but Romina Marasigan, spokeswoman for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, described the situation as “challenging”.
The deadliest typhoon to hit the country was Haiyan, which killed thousands and destroyed entire towns in heavily populated areas of the central Philippines in November 2013.


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‘The village is no longer there’: Philippine Tropical Storm Tembin smashes into Mindanao, death toll climbs to 182

Rescuers evacuate flood-affected residents in Davao on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Photo: AFP

epa06403709 Filipino villagers view a damaged bridge in flood hit town of Salvador, Lanao del Norte province, Philippines, 23 December 2017. According to news reports, Tropical storm Tembin brought mudslides and flooding in southern Philippines that killed nearly 90 people. EPA-EFE/JEOFFREY MAITEM

A man and his motorcycle are transported on a makeshift raft, after a bridge was destroyed by flash floods in Salvador, Lanao del Norte in southern Philippines, December 23, 2017. REUTERS/Richel V. Umel NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

REFILE - CORRECTING TYPO IN THE BYLINE People help to rescue flood victims in Lanao del Norte, Philippines, December 22, 2017 in this image taken from video footage obtained from social media. Aclimah Cabugatan Disumala/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY ACLIMAH CABUGATAN DISUMALA

Rescue workers evacuate flood-affected residents in Davao on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao early on December 23, 2017, after Tropical Storm Tembin dumped torrential rains across the island. The death toll from the tropical storm that struck the southern Philippines has risen to 30 with five others missing, officials said on December 23. / AFP PHOTO / MANMAN DEJETO

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‘The village is no longer there’: Philippine Tropical Storm Tembin smashes into Mindanao, death toll climbs to 182

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average but the region, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit by these cyclones

The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average but the region, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit by these cyclones