Flash Floods Kill More Than a Thousand in Southern Philippines

Flash Floods in Southern Philippines
Bullit Marquez / AP

Mourning
A relative weeps during a mass burial for victims of flash flooding at a public cemetery in Iligan on Dec. 20, 2011. Dozens of grieving relatives of the victims wept openly during funeral rites presided by a Catholic bishop at nightfall.

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