The typhoon hit the region Monday
the spokesman said helicopters were rescuing people stranded by flood they remained chest-deep today in some areas of panay island which appeared to have been hit the worst most of the fatalities and missing on the island, where 445,000 people were homeless
The Philippine National Red Cross reported that 90 percent of the 86,000 houses in Capiz Province on Panay were destroyed. Many of the dead were children who drowned as 30-feet waves smashed into coastal villages.