Nearly 300 people have died as a result of Typhoon Bopha, and about as many were still missing on Wednesday, after the storm caused downpours and unleashed flooding and landslides in the central and southern Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. According to dpa, updated reports put the confirmed death toll at 274, with a further 339 injured. Some of the highest death tolls were in the Compostela Valley and the neighbouring Davao Oriental province. "It is depressing that entire families may have been washed away," Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas told ANC television after visiting the Compostela Valley.
