The Philippine military and aid workers pledged on Thursday to keep searchingfor 103 people missing after tropical storm Megi ripped through central areas this week, burying many under landslides and killing at least 138.
Megi was the first cyclone this year to hit the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands that sees an average of 20 tropical storms a year.
Of the total casualties, 101 were in Baybay, a mountainous area prone to landslides in Leyte province, where more than 200 people were also injured, the city government said. A landslide killed 31 people in Leyte's Abuyog town. Three died in Cebu and Samar and threepeople drowned in other provinces, police and the national disaster agency said.
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