Typhoon leaves 26 dead in Philippines

AIR FORCE HELICOPTER ON RESCUE MISSION CRASHES

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Personnel help evacuate people on a makeshift boat, made from a discarded refrigerator, from their flooded homes in Toledo City, Cebu province.

(AFP)

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barrelled across the central part of the country yesterday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars.

A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province, while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi.

Efforts to locate personnel