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With morgues full, Philippine flood victims buried

Associated Press

  December 20, 2011

With funeral homes overwhelmed, authorities in a flood-stricken southern Philippine city on Monday organized the first mass burial of people who were swept to their deaths in one of worst calamities to strike the region in decades. The official death toll from Friday night’s disaster, spawned by a tropical storm, rose to 927. Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense, said additional bodies were retrieved from the ocean.

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