18 December 2011 Last updated at 10:21

In pictures: Philippine flood devastation

Flood damage in the Cagayan de Oro area, Philippines, 18 December

Rescuers are continuing the search for survivors after floods killed hundreds of people and left many missing in the southern Philippines. Here lorries lie overturned in mud in the Cagayan de Oro area.

A ruined village in the Cagayan de Oro area, Philippines, 18 December

Where villages had once stood in the area around the city of Cagayan de Oro, only mud-strewn ruins remained on Sunday.

Collapsed houses in Iligan, southern Philippines, 18 December

The flooding brought down poorly built houses in the city of Iligan.

Villagers search for relatives in the Cagayan de Oro area, Philippines, 18 December

Villagers searched for missing relatives in the mud around Cagayan de Oro.

Almost 35,000 people were sheltering in evacuation centres on Sunday. Here young survivors rest in Cagayan de Oro.

Survivors try to return to their homes in Iligan, southern Philippines, 18 December

Some, like these people in Iligan, tried to wade through the water to return to their homes.

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