Typhoon Mangkhut: More Than 40 Bodies Found in Philippines Landslide

Video: As the storm moved toward southern China, the search for survivors started in the Philippines, where the death toll could surpass 100. By BARBARA MARCOLINI and SARAH STEIN KERR on Publish Date September 16, 2018. Photo by Jes Aznar for The New York Times.

nytimes.com - September 17th 2018

Emergency workers in the Philippines recovered more than 40 bodies from the muddied wreckage of a gold miners’ bunkhouse after Typhoon Mangkhut set off a landslide, burying the remote northern town of Itogon in a river of debris, officials said on Monday.

Mangkhut, a super typhoon that slammed into the northern Philippine province of Luzon on Saturday, continued a path of destruction across southern China on Sunday and into Monday.

In the Philippines, the police on Monday gave an unofficial death toll of 66 people nationwide, though that number was almost certain to rise. 

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