Residents walk past trucks swept away by flash floods due to heavy rains brought by Typhoon Washi, known locally as Sendong, in Iligan city of the Philippines on Saturday. The typhoon hit the Philippines hard, triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday.REUTERS/Stringer
The death toll from a typhoon in the southern Philippines rose to more than 130, government and army officials said on Saturday, with some domestic flights grounded and wide areas left without power.
Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90 kilometers per hour (56 mph), hit the resource-rich southern island of Mindanao, bringing heavy rain that caused flash floods in the island's two main cities, as well as a landslide in a remote mining area.
An army representative said emergency workers had recovered 97 bodies, most of them children, who drowned in floods in Cagayan de Oro City. Another 40 people also drowned in Iligan City.
(Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Editing by Paul Tait)
