Typhoon Feng Shen | fengshen

Residents cross a flooded street in Manila after heavy rains brought by Typhoon Fengshen on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in Manila. Typhoon Fengshen anchored in the Philippines for a second day Sunday, killing at least 80 people as it submerged the whole society and a passenger ferry capsized with more than 700 passengers and crew members.

A passenger bus negotiates a flooded road in Manila Sunday, June 22, 2008. Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 17 people in the southern Philippines on Saturday as heavy rains of Typhoon Fengshen flooded the region, causing damage officials.

The 72 people included as no shortage of more than 740 passengers and crew members on board the MV Princess of stars, parents worried and cried while waiting for news. Gordon said he had asked U.S. authorities to help find anyone still alive may be on the ferry and were told "they will be very, very hard."

From the investigation and rescue at sea, but things are difficult. The divers were checking the wreck. The ferry, carrying more than 700 passengers and crew members, left Manila Friday for the central island of Cebu. But it ran aground Saturday when his engine failed. Radio communication was interrupted after the accident.

The typhoon began with the closure of the central Philippines on Saturday driving. The central province of Iloilo has been the hardest hit, and a large number of deaths took place on the ground.

At least 20 people were killed, "Fengshen" after he landed in the central island of Samar Friday evening, setting off a west-ward havoc in the central Philippines on the islands of Luzon Visayasand south. The typhoon, which also heavy rain in southern Mindanao, is expected to import from the Philippines on Sunday evening.

A ferry carrying about 700 passengers was sad that his engine is not off the Sibuyan Iceland in the central Philippines yesterday, the Associated Press reported, quoting Coast Guard chief Vice Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo. Radio contact with the MV Princess of stars, owned by Sulpicio Lines Inc., has been lost.

Head of the government's weather forecaster Nathaniel Cruz said the typhoon has gained strength late Saturday afternoon and packing sustained winds of 100 miles per hour and gusts to 122 km / h. It was expected to move northwest of the island of Mindoro.

The typhoon has its opposition, and then went to the northwest to the southern island of Mindoro. The weather bureau has the second highest storm warning for the nine provinces in the region.

In the southern province of Maguindanao at least 14 people died in flash floods Saturday, which swept away 10 houses on a river, said provincial administrator Norie Unas. Five other people were missing.

Officials ordered the evacuation of more than 117000 people in areas prone to floods and landslides in the central province of Albay. But many of them home Saturday afternoon, the typhoon thearea missed.