Typhoon Tino has left 31 persons dead and 54 missing in Negros Island.
Most of the dead drowned.
In Negros Occidental the dead in La Castellana were 10, Murcia – 2, San Carlos City – 3, Bago City – 3, and La Carlota City – 4, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and La Castellana Vice Mayor Rhummyla Mangilimutan said.
There are 41 missing in Negros Occidental with 11 in La Carlota City, 23 in La Castellana and 7 in Bago City.
There were also nine dead in Negros Oriental – eight in Canlaon City and one in Vallehermoso, PLt. Stephen Polinar, Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office spokesperson, said.
Missing in Canlaon City were 18 persons, he said.
The total number of Negrenses affected by the typhoon were 39,102 families with 134,718 members in 375 barangays in 29 out of 31 local government units Negros Occidental.
Of those affected 54,783 were in evacuation centers as of Wednesday.