new BATAAN, Philippines (Reuters) – rescue workers found on Thursday in the southern Philippines to a few survivors of the powerful Typhoon Bopha, while they were looking for in the midst of thick layers of mud, destroyed houses and fallen trees after the disaster that left nearly 400 people dead and hundreds missing

Bopha, which recorded winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 150 kph, was moving to the West-Northwest by the Philippine Center after whipping with force to the southern of Mindanao Island

the national disaster agency said that 379 people were killed then that Bopha unleashed landslides and flooding along the coast and in towns, coastal, and mining of the interior in the Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental provinces.

is expected to increase the number of fatal victims.

the “rescue services found on Thursday a 54 year old man who survived two days feeding on coconuts.

a group of volunteers took to Carlos Agang to a safe place after finding him with a fractured leg and several blows, holding on to a rock in a river in the village again Batan, in the Valley of Compostela.

” I can’t believe it. did not expect to see people survive two days after being swept by floods and mud “, told Reuters the volunteer firefighter Mark Roman Jumilla.

” for two days, survived base of coconut and water. lost his family when waters swept a temporary refuge to which he had gone with his family “, added.

the rescuers also found a pregnant woman on the other Bank of the River, with his son for a year, after escaping the flood that devastated his home then that Bopha landfall Tuesday.

“”It happened so fast. water came fast towards us when we leave the House to go to safer grounds”, told Reuters Lenlen Medrano, 23 years old, when she was being transported on stretcher by a few soldiers.

“Prayed much again and again until we are on the shore”, added the woman.

a Reuters photographer saw four bodies near the site where Agang was rescued. the current was very strong, making it difficult the task of the rescue services

Arturo “Arthur” Uy, Governor of Compostela Valley, the area most affected, estimated that in his province at least 200 people were killed and 600 were missing, a figure higher than that emitted by the Agency.

“This is the first time that a category 3 Typhoon across our province,” said. “Wir evakuierten Menschen aus Gebieten in der Nähe von Flüssen und Meer. aber Überschwemmungen und Winde erschütterte nicht nur Kosten, sondern auch die Orte, wo Bewohner sicher, sein sollten”, sagte.

von rund 20 Taifunen getroffen die Philippinen jedes Jahr oft Todesfolge und Zerstörung. vor fast einem Jahr Typhoon Washi getötet 1.500 Menschen in Mindanao.

(Zusatzbericht Rosemarie Francis und Manny Mogato; Von Ana Laura Mitidieri/Marion Giraldo in spanischer Sprache veröffentlicht)