Southeast Asia Storm Kills Hundreds

More than 360 people are dead across Southeast Asia after the destructive storm Ketsana left floods and mudslides in its path through the region.

Sept. 30

Residents scramble for relief goods as military helicopters deliver dry clothes, food and water to a storm-ravaged village in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines. Many Filipinos tried to rebuild their lives after saving little more than the clothes they wore in a tropical storm that prompted the capital's worst flooding in more than four decades.

Aaron Favila-AP

Sept. 30

A resident wades through knee-deep mud inside the storm-ravaged village of Rodriguez, in Rizal province, Philippines. One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of Manila, Philippines.

Aaron Favila-AP

Sept. 30

A Filipino soldier gestures as residents run toward relief goods delivered by military helicopters at a village in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines. Another typhoon was gaining strength as it moved toward the hard-hit northern Philippines, bringing rain to eastern provinces.

Aaron Favila-AP

Sept. 30

Workers clean a river full of debris from destroyed houses, caused by Ketsana in Manila, Philippines. The international community rallied to Manila's appeal for help to avert a humanitarian crisis following the weekend storm that forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

Noel Celis-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 30

Family members use an improvised raft to carry a dead relative during a funeral procession on a flooded street caused by Ketsana, known locally as Ondoy, in Taytay Rizal, east of Manila.

Romeo Ranoco-Reuters

Sept. 30

A boy carries a folding table as he walks through mud at a storm ravaged village in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines. Flood victims trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centers in the Philippines as the death toll rose from the floods.

Aaron Favila-AP

Sept. 30

Young flood survivors hold up placards asking for donations from passersby along the street in Marikina, an eastern suburb of Manila.

Noel Celis-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 30

Filling station workers caught by floods sit next to submerged cars following the passage of the Ketsana in the tourist town of Hoi An in central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam.

Hoang Dinh Nam-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 30

A Filipino child scavenges for recyclable plastic to sell along the riverside in the aftermath of heavy flooding in Marikina on the outskirts of Manila.

Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 30

Flooded homes in the town of Binan, in Laguna province, south of Manila. In the Philippines, officials said 2.5 million people had their homes swamped, and nearly 700,000 were seeking help in relief centers hastily set up in schools and other public buildings -- even the presidential palace.

Ted Aljibe-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 29

Flooding victims scramble for relief supplies being airdropped by air force helicopter crewmen at San Mateo township, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines, three days after Tropical Storm Ketsana brought the worst flooding in metropolitan Manila in more than 40 years.

Rogel Vidallo-AP

Sept. 29

A helicopter crewman with the Philippine air force drops supplies to affected residents at Cainta township, Rizal province, east of Manila. Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday from massive flooding from Tropical Storm Ketsana, while two new storms brewing in the Pacific threatened to complicate relief efforts.

Rey Bruna-AP

Sept. 29

An employee of a hospital sweeps the floor next to a muddied respirator machine as the cleanup of floodwaters continues in the town of Marikina in suburban Manila.

Ted Aljibe-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 29

A couple help each other build their house under a bridge that was swept away during the flooding in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila.

Pat Roque-AP

Sept. 29

Youths carry corrugated sheet on a bicycle through the mud in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila.

Pat Roque-AP

Sept. 29

People try to salvage materials from the debris after the flooding in suburban San Mateo, east of Manila, Philippines.

Pat Roque-AP

Sept. 28

Rescue workers carry an elderly couple through flood waters in Pasig City, near Manila, Philippines. The Philippine government said it could not cope with massive flooding that has displaced nearly half a million people, amid fears the death toll could soar. Tropical Storm Ketsana dropped the heaviest rain in more than 40 years on Manila and neighboring areas.

Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 29

This aerial photograph shows the town of Angono just east of Manila still covered with floodwaters three days after tropical storm Ketsana hit the country, pouring a month's worth of rain in just nine hours.

Jay Directo-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 28

Debris of a house destroyed after a landslide in Arayat town, Pampanga province, north of Manila. The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands marooned by flash floods, and apologized for the delays in rescue efforts.

Romeo Ranoco-Reuters

Sept. 28

Maria Luz Magallanes grieves beside the coffin of her son, Muelmar, an 18-year-old construction worker who saved more than 30 people from rampaging Philippine floods over the weekend, in Manila. Muelmar sacrificed his life in a last trip to rescue a baby girl who was being swept away on a floating box. Family members and those who were saved hailed Muelmar on Monday a hero, as his body lay in a coffin at a makeshift evacuation center near their destroyed Manila riverside village.

Jay Directo-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 28

Survivors of Tropical Storm Ketsana, also known as Ondoy, ask for relief goods in Cainta Rizal, east of Manila.

Cheryl Ravelo-Reuters

Sept. 28

A girl crosses a muddy road as flood waters recede in the outlying suburbs of Marikina city, near Manila.

Mike Clarke-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 28

Residents transport their motorcycle and pedicab using a canoe in floodwaters in Sta Rosa Laguna, south of Manila.

Reuters

Sept. 28

A man washes his clothes along the riverbanks in suburban Marikina city, east of Manila. Many Filipinos tried to rebuild their lives Monday after saving little more than the clothes they wore in a tropical storm that prompted the capital's worst flooding in more than four decades.

Aaron Favila-AP

Sept. 27

U.S. Navy SEAL teams One and Seven, Naval Special Boat Teams 12 and 20, and medical personnel assigned to Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, prepare their boats to rescue residents in Cainta town, Rizal province, east of Manila. Rescue workers struggled through knee-deep mud and putrid water in a desperate effort to help nearly half a million people displaced by devastating floods, as the death toll rose beyond 100.

Mass Com. Spec. William Ramsey-AFP/Getty Images

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Southeast Asia Storm Kills Hundreds

More than 360 people are dead across Southeast Asia after the destructive storm Ketsana left floods and mudslides in its path through the region.

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