Flood waters receded in the Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon that killed at least 35 people, but thousands more remained cut off from help, hungry and at risk of disease aftter a week of severe flooding Soldiers buried nearly 100 people killed in landslides in northern Aurora province, as typhoon Nanmadol swept north towards Taiwan. The typhoon added to the misery of thousands in the northern Philippines made homeless by landslides and floods from other storms this week that have left more than 1,000 dead or missing.
"We need one great heave to deliver the relief supplies, find the missing, rescue the isolated, feed the hungry and shelter the homeless," President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said in a statement on national television.
Logging has been blamed for exacerbating the weather disaster, which has forced more than 200,000 people from their homes. Many were running out of food and clean water and power was cut in some areas.
Nanmadol has moved into the South China Sea and was heading towards Taiwan, but its wind have slowed to 120 kph (75 mph) from 185 kph when it first hit the Philippines.
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