The casualties were all on the main southern island of Mindanao, they said. <\/p>\n
“We’re are still trying to confirm reports of a farming village buried by a mudslide due to heavy rains brought by the typhoon,” said Ryan Cabus, an official in Tubod town.<\/p>\n
Emergency workers and soldiers rushed to the remote village in the Lanao del Norte province.<\/p>\n
“We have no contact with village officials because power and communications lines were down due to a tropical storm,” said Roy Secuya, a local official.<\/p>\n
The area had been hit by Tropical storm Tembin.<\/p>\n
“The river rose and most of the homes were swept away. The village is no longer there,” Tubod police officer Gerry Parami told AFP by telephone.<\/p>\n
Police, soldiers and volunteers used shovels to dig through mud and debris in a bid to recover bodies in Dalama, a farming village of about 2,000 people near Tubod, Parami added.<\/p>\n
Boulders brought down by flash floods also buried around 40 houses in the town of Piagapo, killing at least 10 people, civil defence officer Saripada Pacasum told AFP.<\/p>\n
“We’ve sent rescuers but they’re making little progress due to the rocks,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit by these cyclones.<\/p>\n
Eight other people were killed by floods elsewhere on Lanao del Sur province, Pacasum said.<\/p>\n
Police said three people each died from landslides in the provinces of Bukidnon and Zamboanga Sibugay, while one fatality was also reported in Iligan city.<\/p>\n
Four people were listed as missing after being buried in landslides or being swept away by floodwaters, while more than 12,000 have fled their homes, they added.<\/p>\n
After slicing across Mindanao on Friday, Tembin sped west over the Sulu Sea with gusts of 95 kilometres an hour.<\/p>\n
It was forecast to smash into the tip of the western island of Palawan late Saturday, the state weather service said.<\/p>\n
Tembin struck less than a week after Tropical Storm Kai-Tak devastated the central Philippines, leaving 54 dead and 24 missing.<\/p>\n
The deadliest typhoon to hit the country was Haiyan, which left 7,350 people dead and destroyed entire towns in heavily populated areas of the central Philippines in November 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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