Typhoon Fengshen lashed the Philippines for a second day today, leaving at least 80 people dead as it submerged entire communities and capsized a passenger ferry carrying more than 740 passengers and crew.

DIVERS returned to a half-sunken, gutted ferry yesterday to search for 184 passengers missing since a fire aboard the ship last week, as the Philippines government played down claims by a Muslim militant group that it had planted a bomb that caused the blaze.