At least 11 persons were confirmed dead while 27 were declared missing, according to late reports that the provincial government received on Wednesday from the isolated villages of southern Palawan. According to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) of Palawan, most of the deaths were in the remote island village of Mangsee in Balabac town close to the Malaysian maritime border. Mangsee, an island village in the middle of the Sulu Sea, was the hardest hit portion of southern Palawan as Vinta made landfall last Saturday. It is a densely populated island closer to Sabah in Malaysia than it is to its town center of Balabac. Acosta said the official death count could rise to at least 30 once reports from search-and-rescue teams could be confirmed .

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 27, 2017 11:26 UTC