Nearly 200 villagers have been injured largely within the landslides within the hard-hit metropolis of Baybay in central Leyte province over the weekend and early Monday, officers mentioned.
Search and rescue efforts elevated on Wednesday with the arrival of kit.
Army, police and different rescuers have been scuffling with mud and unstable heaps of earth and particles to search out the lacking villagers.
More rescuers and heavy gear, together with backhoes, arrived within the landslide-hit villages in Baybay.
Its mayor, Jose Carlos Cari, mentioned the climate cleared on Wednesday, permitting the search and rescue work to go full pressure.
“We’re looking for so many more missing people,” Cr Cari mentioned, including that authorities would do a recount to find out what number of villagers have been actually lacking and believed buried within the landslides.
Forty-seven of the useless have been recovered from the landslides that hit six Baybay villages, navy and native officers mentioned.
Nine different individuals drowned elsewhere in floodwaters in 4 central and southern provinces, they mentioned.
“We are saddened by this dreadful incident that caused an unfortunate loss of lives and destruction of properties,” mentioned military brigade commander Colonel Noel Vestuir, who was serving to oversee the search and rescue.
Coast guard, police and firefighters rescued some villagers on Monday in flooded central communities, together with some who have been trapped on their roofs.
In central Cebu metropolis, colleges and work have been suspended Monday and Mayor Michael Rama declared a state of calamity to permit the fast launch of emergency funds.
At least 20 storms and typhoons batter the Philippines every year, largely throughout the wet season that begins round June.
Floodwaters proceed rising in Sydney’s north-west
Some storms have hit even throughout the scorching summer season months in recent times.
The disaster-prone south-east Asian nation additionally lies on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, the place lots of the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes happen.