(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/reuters/2012-12-06t110342z_390084279_gm1e8c61guk01_rtrmadp_3_philippines-typhoon.photoblog600.jpg)ReutersTyphoon survivor Carlos Agang lies on a stretcher after he was found alive Thursday.By ReutersUpdated at 2 p.m. ET: NEW BATAAN, Philippines – Rescue workers found a 54-year-old man clinging to a boulder by a river – injured but alive – two days after a powerful typhoon ravaged the south of the Philippines, killing at least 379 people. Hundreds are still missing.
All Carlos Agang had to eat was coconut and water until he was found in a tattered shirt with a fractured leg and bruises by a group of rescue volunteers in New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, the province worst hit by Typhoon Botha. Reuters initially reported he was 77, but later corrected his age.
"I can't believe it. I didn't expect to see people survive two days after they were swept by flood and mud," fire volunteer Mark Roman Jumilla told Reuters.
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