NEWS
More than 100 dead in Philippine mudslides, flooding
14:30 December 23, 2017 Reuters
At least 100 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a tropical storm hit the southern Philippines triggering mudslides and flooding, police and disaster officials said on Saturday. The casualties were all on the main southern island of Mindanao, they said. Social media users shared images of devastation caused by floods. The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons every year, bringing death and destruction, usually to the poorest communities of the poor Southeast Asian country. Last week, 46 people were killed in the central Philippines when a typhoon hit. In 2013, super typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 8,000 people and left 200,000 families homeless.