The death toll from a typhoon that devastated the southern Philippines
earlier this month has topped 1,000 as hundreds more remain missing, the
government said on Sunday.
Typhoon Bopha killed 1,020 people, mostly on the southern island of Mindanao
where floods and landslides caused major damage on December 4, civil defence
chief Benito Ramos said.A total of 844 people remain missing, about half of them fishermen who ventured out to sea before Bopha hit, Ramos said, adding he feared many of the missing were dead.
