APARRI, Philippines — A day after Typhoon Mangkhut tore through the Philippines, officials began to discover that the human toll from the storm was worse than they had thought. In Benguet Province, in the western highlands of northern Luzon, a landslide crushed a church and a bunkhouse for miners. With other landslide victims in the province, officials feared on Sunday that the number of deaths could surpass 100. Elsewhere in mountainous parts of the island, landslides buried homes, killing inhabitants who chose not to take shelter in one of the many evacuation centers opened for the storm. By late Sunday, the unofficial count from the police was 59 dead, but that did not include what could be the worst toll in Benguet Province.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 13:21 UTC