Death toll from storm surges to 100 in Philippines

The death toll has risen to 100 as Tropical Storm Trami battered the coast of the northeastern Philippines. Besides, many others are missing due to the storm. On Sunday, the country's government officials reported the number of casualties caused by the tram.

Rescuers are conducting village-to-village operations in various lakes and isolated villages in the coastal area in search of the missing. Trami is the deadliest storm to hit the Southeast Asian country this year. Trami made landfall off the northeastern coast of the Philippines last Thursday.

According to the Philippines' National Disaster Management Agency, nearly 500,000 people have fled their homes to avoid being hit by the tram, and at least 36 people are still missing.

Police recorded at least 38 deaths in the country's Bicol region, which suffered the most damage from the trams; Most of them drowned, officials said.

"We are still receiving a lot of telephone calls and we are trying to save as many people as possible," Bicol regional police director Andre Dijon told the French news agency AFP. Hopefully, no one else will die.

He said many residents in the province of Camarines Sur are still trapped in the roofs and buildings of their houses. The death toll in Batangas province, south of Manila, rose to 55, provincial police chief Jacinto Malinao told AFP.

Two people died after drowning and electrocution in Cavite province, police said. Five more bodies were recovered from other provinces, according to sources from the Philippine police and the National Disaster Management Agency. As a result, the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami in the country has increased to 100.

Edgar Posadas, the country's civil defense official, told AFP that rescuers were still unable to reach many isolated areas. Due to which it is feared that the number of deaths may increase in the coming days.

About 560,000 people have been displaced by floods caused by Tropical Storm Trami, the Philippines' National Disaster Management Agency said on Sunday. Floods have submerged hundreds of villages in the northern Philippines.

At least 20 major storms and typhoons hit the Southeast Asian island nation in or around it every year. Thousands of people's houses and other structures are damaged in these natural disasters. Besides, many people lost their lives in the storm.