The death toll from mudslides and flooding triggered by tropical storm Tembin has risen to 200, police said here on Saturday night. Tembin has also left dozens of others missing as it has been pounding the southern Philippines and dumping torrential rains in its way since early on Friday, Xinhua reported. In a report, Superintendent Lemuel Gonda of the provincial Philippine National Police (PNP) said 135 people have died in Northern Mindanao and 47 in Zamboanga Peninsula during the storm. Assemblyman Zia Alonto Adiong of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said 18 people were also killed in the ARMM region.

This photo taken on December 23, 2017 shows people looking a the bodies of victims who died during Tropical Storm Tembin in Lanao del Norte on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes by a tropical storm that battered the southern Philippines leaving at least 182 dead, police and aid agencies said on December 24. Pic/AFP