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'Pablo' death toll now at 274 Dec 5th 2012, 13:34 The death toll from Typhoon Pablo jumped to 274 Wednesday with hundreds more missing, as rescuers battled to reach areas cut off by floods and mudslides. Typhoon Pablo (international name: Bopha) slammed into Mindanao Tuesday, toppling trees and blowing away thousands of homes with 210-kph (130-mph) gusts before easing and heading towards the South China Sea. A total of 253 people died in and around the gold-rush mountain towns of New Bataan and Monkayo due to typhoon-spawned landslides and flash floods there, civil defense chief Benito Ramos told reporters. ...

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