Philippine rescuers on Saturday shoveled away debris to recover bodies from mudslides that swept down on mountainside villages as the death toll from a powerful typhoon passed 300 with up to another 300 people missing. Houses along the Yawa River in Padang, about 10 kilometers (7 miles) from Legazpi, the capital of worst-hit Albay province, were buried under 1 1/2 meters (five feet) of mud with only roofs protruding. The national Office of Civil Defense reported 208 people dead, 261 missing and 82 injured. But the figures included only 22 dead and no one missing from the village of Guinobatan, where Albay Gov. Fernando Gonzalez said a social welfare worker reported 120 bodies had been recovered from massive flooding, the Associated Press reported.
