More coffins needed in Philippines
China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-13 08:05
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A typhoon victim holds on to her belongings as she wades through floodwater in Calumpit, Bulacan, north of Manila, yesterday. The death toll from two typhoons in 14 days rose to more than 600. Reuters |
BAGUIO, Philippines: Authorities sent more than 200 coffins yesterday to the typhoon-battered northern Philippines for the grim task of burying the storm's victims, including a family of eight whose house was buried under a torrent of mud.
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