MSNBC News Services
updated 1:08 p.m. ET June 22, 2008
MANILA, Philippines - Typhoon Fengshen has killed at least 155 people in the Philippines in a torrent of flashfloods and landslides, the head of the Philippines Red Cross, Richard Gordon, told local radio on Sunday, according to Reuters.
The death toll from the typhoon could rise sharply after a ferry with some 845 people on board capsized off an island in the central Philippines with few survivors found so far.
Only 10 wave-battered survivors are known to have made it to land, just hours after the ferry, brought to a virtual halt by the storm, suddenly tilted and went belly up in about a half-hour around noon Saturday.
