Toll of dead and missing passes 100 following Tropical Storm Trami

Residents try to recover personal belongings from their damaged home after a landslide triggered by Tropical Storm Trami in Talisay, Batangas province (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has exceeded 100 and the president said on Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue.

Trami blew away from the north-western Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 85 people dead and 41 others missing in one of the south-east Asian archipelago’s deadliest and most destructive storms so far this year, the government’s disaster-response agency said.