Thousands spend Christmas in shelters after Philippine storm

Tropical Storm Tembin unleashed landslides and flash floods that left more than 120 people dead and 160 missing in the region.

By: AP | Philippines | Published: December 25, 2017 8:09 am

Residents weep in a village devastated by flash floods in Salvador, Lanao del Norte in southern Philippines (Reuters)

Thousands of villagers in the southern Philippines spent their Christmas morning in emergency shelters Monday as the region dealt with the aftermath of one of the deadliest storms to hit the country this year.

Tropical Storm Tembin unleashed landslides and flash floods that left more than 120 people dead and 160 missing, mostly in the hard-hit provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur and on the Zamboanga Peninsula. It strengthened into a typhoon before blowing out of the country Sunday and into the South China Sea.