A severe storm caused flash floods, 440 people died in his sleep Philippines

Flooding in southern Philippines after the typhoon landed claimed the lives of 400 people when they are sleeping and engulfed two coastal cities in the dirt, trees and debris from buildings destroyed to cancel.

Most of the victims were sleeping when severe flooding devastated the area south of this belief. The heavy rain lasted for 12 hours after the tropical storm made landfall on the rocky mountain region slides down and wipe out all of them along the way. The area affected is defined as south of Mindanao, which suffered the most tropical storms worldwide.

Flash floods ravaged the southern Philippines.

The head of the Red Cross Pilippines, Mrs. Gwen Pang for the AP said, according to figures compiled from the morgue, at least 436 bodies were found. Accordingly, 215 people were killed in determining Cagayan de Oro, a city of more than 500,000 people and 144 people were killed in the distribution of nearly 300,000 people, Iligan. The other victims are scattered in several provinces in the South and Central Philippines.

According to Ms. Pang said more bodies were found near a day but still loved to trace the authorities concerned may be the family they were killed when floods swept through terror.

In addition, military spokesman Lt. Col. Randilph Cabangbang said around 250 people still missing in Iligan area.

Water levels in rivers rising in the region irregularities caused serious flooding in many areas.Landscape survivors standing on the roof waiting for rescue forces while submerged under water appear almost everywhere in the flood ravaged areas,

Local television stations also recorded flood warning employees to go with terrifying speed on the street, clean up everything in the way they are. Cars thrown, large and small excavations are scattered around in all positions with distorted its shape.

Benito Ramos, head of civil defense office of the Philippine government that, in Mindanao casualties unusually high "by the subjective part of the people that do not lie in the path of the storm" despite government issued warnings to four days earlier.

Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers and hundreds of local police and volunteers are racing against time to find missing persons. However, their efforts are hampered by the many areas not accessible by roads were destroyed, power systems in many areas which have not been restored after a devastating flood.

Ayi Hernandez, a former lawmaker recounted horrors he and his family were sleeping in a house in Cagayan de Oro then heard a "terrible sound" and then a flood of water. Fear of water can rise higher, he and his family fled to a neighbor's second floor to safety. "It was the right decision by less than an hour later, floodwaters rising to 3.3 m", flooded the whole house of the family, Mr. Hernandez said.

In response to the disaster situation in the Philippines, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama administration send "deepest condolences" to the areas devastated by natural disasters in southern Philippines. "The U.S. government willing to support the Philippines to cope with this tragedy.We pray for those affected, "the statement said.

Currently, the water in the affected areas have started to withdraw to the authorities concerned, the death toll will rise much after rescuers to reach the area was engulfed. The Philippines authorities are still great efforts to overcome the disaster.