32 dead, 24 missing in the Philippines after heavy rain, flooding

Dozens of people went missing or killed after heavy rain washed through parts of the Philippines over the Christmas weekend. Over 56,000 people were also placed in emergency shelters.

Images from the southern province of Misamis Occidental showed rescuers carrying an elderly woman on a plastic chair as they waded through a flooded street. Some residents in the province were seen hanging on to floaters as coast guard rescuers pulled them across chest-deep floods using a rope.

Eighteen of the 32 deaths were reported in the Northern Mindanao region, while 22 of the 24 missing were from Eastern Visayas in the central Philippines and the eastern Bicol region, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.