Philippine flood toll climb to 60

Thousands more Philippine flood survivors yesterday crammed into evacuation centres as waist-high water covered vast farming regions and the death toll from a week of misery rose to 60.
The flooding that submerged 80 percent of Manila early in the week had largely subsided, allowing people to return to their homes, but vital rice-growing areas to the north remained submerged as more rain fell there.
Nearly two weeks of monsoon rains across the Philippines' main island of Luzon peaked with a 48-hour deluge earlier this week that battered Manila and surrounding regions.