(Eagle News) –Typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) has left at least 15 persons dead, even as officials expect this number to rise as more bodies are found in Northern Luzon which was badly hit by the tropical cyclone.
The fatalities were from Region 3 or Central Luzon, Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Southern Tagalog or CALABARZON. The number of injured at three are also expected to rise.
The number of missing was also listed at six, although Natonin town mayor Mateo Chiyawan said that there were actually 22 still missing in the landslide site of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) second district engineering office in Mountain Province.
DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said that there were 10 bodies already recovered from the DPWH landslide site as of Wednesday, double the earlier reported number of five dead recovered from the rubble.
-Body recovered near river in town near DPWH landslide site-
As this developed, authorities recovered a body found near Bananao River in Paracelis, a nearby town of Natonin in Mountain Province.
PO1 Danny Amistad of Paracelis Police Station said Sangguniang Bayan official Ramon Ucatan to report to them about the body of a man which residents saw near the river.
The body was brought to the Paracelis District Hospital.
It was still unidentified as of posting time.
Authorities still could not determine if the dead man was among the missing persons in the DPWH landslide site in nearby Natonin town.
(with report from JB Sison and photo from Cromwell Corpuz, Eagle News Service correspondents in Mountain Province)
