Scores still missing in storm Megi’s wake

Painful ordeal: Search and rescue workers evacuating an injured villager after the village was struck by a landslide due to heavy rains brought about by tropical storm Megi. — AFP

The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 67 with scores missing and feared dead, officials said, as rescuers dug up more bodies with bare hands and backhoes in crushed villages.

Most of the deaths from tropical storm Megi – the strongest to hit the archipelago this year – were in the central province of Leyte, where a series of landslides devastated communities.