Philippines typhoon death toll tops 1000

The death toll from a typhoon that devastated the southern Philippines earlier this month has topped 1,000 as hundreds more remain missing, the government said yesterday.
Typhoon Bopha killed 1,020 people, mostly on the southern island of Mindanao where floods and landslides caused major damage on December 4, civil defence chief Benito Ramos said.
A total of 844 people remain missing, he added.
"The death toll will go higher," he told AFP.
More than 27,000 people remain in cyclone centres almost two weeks after Bopha hit as the search for the dead and missing continues, the civil defence office said.