Rescuers dig with bare hands after typhoon
Rescuers, some using their bare hands, combed mud-stricken villages on the slopes of the Philippines’ Mayon volcano today, five days after a typhoon left a trail of destruction estimated to have killed more than 1,000 people.
The official figures recorded 425 dead, 507 injured and 599 missing, but Senator Richard Gordon, head of the local Red Cross, said he believed more than 1,000 had died in the thousands of homes buried under five feet of volcanic debris and mud.
