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A Philippine Air Force helicopter airlifts relief goods to a remote village of Dulag, Iligan City on Dec. 30, 2011.

Agence France Presse reports:

Tens of thousands of flash flood survivors in the Philippines face life in tent cities for months while safe areas to resettle them are sought, top relief officials said on Dec. 26. More than 60,000 people displaced by tropical storm Washi are sheltering in government buildings in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, most of them in schools that reopen after the holidays, civil defence chief Benito Ramos said.

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Over 1000 people are killed in flash floods, landslides following a tropical storm.

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Aizee Tumanda, a five day old infant who was born on the roof of a health clinic that was submerged by floodwaters, in Cagayan de Oro, southern Mindanao, Philippines, on Dec. 22, 2011.

msnbc.com news services report:

A Filipino woman tenderly caressed her five-day-old daughter on Thursday as she recounted how she had given birth on the roof of a submerged medical clinic at the height of the storm and floods that killed more than 1,000 people.  

Annaliza Tumanda said she, her husband and three children — aged 3 to 8 — swam from their destroyed home in Cagayan de Oro to a neighbor's three-story house. She went into labor on Saturday morning and was brought by rescuers to the roof of a health center, where she gave birth to a healthy 6.6 pound baby.

"With God's will, we survived," she said. "It was like a miracle."

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Annaliza Tumanda watches over her baby at the evacuation center. Aizee has been given the nickname Sendang, a local name for Typhoon Washi.

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Aizee is surrounded by her mother and siblings at a basketball court which serves as a government-run evacuation center.

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Typhoon Washi survivors pray before the start of a trauma counseling session by volunteers from humanitarian agency World Vision, in Philippines on Wednesday.

Reuters reports:

ILIGAN, Philippines — Residents of two southern Philippine cities battered by a storm that left over 1,000 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands started the hard work of reclaiming their lives as authorities buried dozens of bodies in concrete vaults on Wednesday.

Washi was one of the deadlist typhoons to hit the country since 2008 when Fengshen killed 938 in the central Philippines, according to the national disaster agency. The worst typhoon was Thelma which struck Ormoc City on central island of Leyte in 1991, causing flash floods that killed more than 5,000 people.

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Philippine Navy personnel arrange coffins that will be shipped with drinking water, clothes and other relief goods to flood-stricken Cagayan De Oro and Iligan cities on board a navy ship in Manila, Philippines on Dec. 20, 2011.

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Philippine Navy personnel carry donated caskets to be transported by a Navy ship to flood affected provinces from military headquarters in Manila on Dec. 20, 2011.

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Unidentified typhoon victims, inside coffins and body bags, lie near a road awaiting identification by their relatives near Iligan city on Dec. 20, 2011.

The Associated Press reports from ILIGAN, Philippines:

The government shipped more than 400 coffins to two flood-stricken cities in the southern Philippines on Tuesday as the death toll neared 1,000 and President Benigno Aquino III declared a state of national calamity.

The latest count listed 957 dead and 49 missing and is expected to climb further as additional bodies are recovered from the sea and mud in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro cities.

A handful of morgues are overwhelmed and running out of coffins and formaldehyde for embalming. Aid workers appealed for bottled water, blankets, tents and clothes for many of 45,000 in crowded evacuation centers.

Navy sailors in Manila loaded a ship with 437 white wooden coffins to help local authorities handle the staggering number of dead. Also on the way were containers with thousands of water bottles.

Most of the dead were women and children who drowned Friday night when flash floods triggered by a tropical storm gushed into homes while people were asleep. Continue reading.

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An aerial view shows damage caused by floods following Typhoon Washi in Iligan City, in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao on Dec. 19, 2011.

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People search for their belongings in a village that was devastated by rampaging flood waters, in Iligan on Dec. 19, 2011.

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A resident stands next to an overturned vehicle swept away at the height of the devastating floods, in Iligan on Dec. 19, 2011, two days day after Typhoon Washi wrought havoc in the city.

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Policemen search for missing Typhoon Washi victims in a subdivision of Iligan city on Dec. 19, 2011.

msnbc.com news services report from ILIGAN, Philippines :

 With funeral parlors overwhelmed, authorities in a flood-stricken southern Philippine city on Monday organized the first mass burial of some of nearly 700 people who were swept to their deaths in one of worst calamities to strike the region in decades.

The staggering death toll from Friday night's disaster, spawned by a tropical storm, remained little changed but the number of missing varied widely. Official figures put the missing at 82, while the Philippine Red Cross estimated 800.

"We lost count of how many are missing," said Benito Ramos, head of the government's Office of Civil Defense.

Disaster agencies delivered body bags, food, water, and medicine to crowded evacuation centers throughout the region.

The government said nearly 143,000 people were affected by the flash floods and landslides. Read the full story.

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