Tropical Storm Megi has killed at least 53 people in the Philippines. Landslides and floods have killed many more people in the Philippines than before.

In flooded villages on Wednesday, rescuers were still looking for survivors. They were digging through mud and wading in chest-deep water to look for people who had been lost.

A lot of people died in Sunday’s natural disaster, but the number of deaths is only going to keep going up, officials say.

Baybay city is in the middle of the province of Leyte, and the villages around it are the worst hit.

There were hillside avalanches and rivers that burst their banks, destroying homes and killing many people. City Mayor Jose Carlos Cari told CNN that at least 47 people were killed in the area.

Most of the homes in one village were washed away to sea, a government official told the news agency AFP.

The Philippines’ national disaster agency has also said that people have died in the southern Davao region, Mindanao, and in the central Negros Orientals province, which is in the middle.

More than 100,000 people have been affected by the storm, authorities say.

Storm Agaton hit the archipelago on Sunday with strong winds of up to 65 km/h. Many people fled their homes and went to shelters or higher ground in order to avoid the strong winds (40mph).

A lot of scientists say that human-caused climate change has made tropical storms stronger and more powerful than they were before. Storms have killed a lot of people in the Philippines since 2006.

Due to where it is, it has been ranked as one of the countries that are most at risk from climate disasters because of its geography.

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