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The Philippine military and aid workers pledged on Thursday to keep searching for 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 …

Rescuers hampered by mud and rain on Tuesday used their bare hands and shovels to search for survivors of landslides that smashed into villages in the central Philippines, as the death toll from tropical storm Megi rose to 42. Tens of thousands of people fled their homes as the storm …

The state weather bureau said that the tropical storm Megi made landfall in the central Philippine province on Sunday morning. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration said Megi hit land before 8:00 a.m. local time, Xinhua reported. Megi is the first tropical storm to hit the Southeast Asian …