Rescue teams mounted a search today for 21 people, including a town mayor and a group of students, missing after their ferry sank in the southern Philippines in bad weather, officials said.

A small ferry capsized in rough waters in the southern Philippines today, leaving 14 passengers dead while 58 were rescued, a civil defence official said.

Landslides and floods have killed about 80 people in the southern and central Philippines, following several days of rain, officials said today.