Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline [View all]

[Stuart G]

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/philippines-floods-2011-bodies_n_1169671.html

MANILA, Philippines — Fishermen joined Philippine navy sailors, police and firefighters in an ever wider search for bodies from entire villages swept away in one of the country's worst flash floods. More bodies have washed ashore, pushing the death toll to more than 1,200, an official said Monday.

While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles (100 kilometers) from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.