Via ABS-CBN News, an AFP report: Typhoon Pablo toll tops 500, military says. Excerpt:
At least 540 people have been confirmed dead in the Philippines following the deadliest typhoon to hit the country this year, rescue officials said Friday.
Regional military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Lyndon Paniza told AFP the region's armed forces had retrieved 506 bodies on the east coast of the southern island of Mindanao and around the southern town of New Bataan.
The civil defence office in Manila said 23 other people were killed elsewhere in Mindanao, along with 11 in the central Visayan islands.
The government agency said 383 people remained missing while the number of survivors who have sought refuge at government shelters has grown to more than 306,000.
