Death toll in Philippines from storm Megi further to 56

STORY: Death toll in Philippines from storm Megi further to 56 DATELINE: April 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:32 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the floods STORYLINE: The death toll from the tropical storm that battered the Philippines last weekend rose to 56, including the 47 buried by landslides in the central Philippines, authorities said on Wednesday. As of Wednesday morning, Baybay City Mayor Jose Carlos Cari said rescuers retrieved 47 bodies from the mud that covered 10 villages in Leyte province. "Some of the bodies were retrieved, and some were washed out in the shoreline," he told a local television interview, adding that 12 more are missing in two villages. He said social workers are doing a headcount to determine the number of residents missing in one riverside village that was heavily destroyed by the mudslide early Sunday morning. Cari said the affected villages are near rice paddies. "The soil was fully saturated, so the mud reached the villages," he said. The

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