At least 126 people died and are missing due to Typhoon Tra Mi in the Philippines.

(CLO) The number of people dead and missing in massive floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Trami (Vietnamese name is Tra Mi) in the Philippines has reached at least 126. The Philippine President said on Saturday that many areas were still isolated with many people needing to be rescued.

Specifically, before heading towards the East Sea and making landfall in central Vietnam, storm Tra Mi killed at least 85 people and left 41 others missing in the Philippines.

It was one of the most severe storms to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago this year, according to the Philippines' disaster agency. The death toll is expected to rise as reports come in from previously isolated areas.

Rescuers search for bodies after a landslide caused by Typhoon Tra Mi in Batangas province, Philippines on October 26. Photo: AP

Dozens of police, firefighters and other rescuers, aided by three excavators and sniffer dogs, dug out one of the last two missing villagers in the lakeside town of Talisay in Batangas province on Saturday.

At a basketball gym near the town center, more than a dozen white coffins were placed side by side for the bodies of people found in a pile of mud, boulders and fallen trees that rolled down the slope of a mountain range on Thursday afternoon in Talisay's Sampaloc village.

President Ferdinand Marcos, who toured another hard-hit area southeast of Manila on Saturday, said unusually heavy rains caused by the storm had exceeded flood control capabilities in provinces devastated by Typhoon Tra Mi.

An area devastated by landslides caused by Typhoon Tra Mi in Batangas province, Philippines on October 26. Photo: AP

Philippine authorities said more than 5 million people were affected in the storm's path, including nearly half a million who had to seek more than 6,300 emergency shelters in several provinces.

About 20 typhoons strike the Philippines each year. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing and flattened entire villages.

Bui Huy (according to AP)

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