Hundreds Dead, Hundreds Missing

Inside the village hall, a middle-aged woman wept openly as she squatted before a row of four whitewashed coffins.

“These are my children. They’re gone,” Marina Regencia said Sunday between sobs, pointing to the coffins of her 10- and 8-year-old daughters, 4-year-old son and month-old boy. A fifth child still was missing.

The bodies were among 37 fished out of Calauag Bay on Friday and Saturday, after the 140 mph winds of Typhoon Angela lashed the northern Philippines, killing at least 500 people.

Two hundred others were reported missing after the country’s strongest storm in 11 years hit with 12-foot-high waves and flash floods.