(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121213-bopha-hmed-746p.photoblog600.jpg)Ted Aljibe / AFP - Getty ImagesResidents rest under an uprooted tree used as shelter Thursday, Dec. 13, in New Bataan in Compostela province, 10 days after Typhoon Bopha roared through the Philippines.By M. Alex Johnson, NBC NewsTyphoon Bopha killed more than 900 people and left almost 80,000 others homeless in the Philippines, the government said Thursday, a week and a half after the storm devastated large parts of the southeast Asian island nation.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The death toll, which the government set Thursday at 902, is likely to rise significantly, as 934 other people remained unaccounted for. More than 2,600 people were injured.
"I am saddened and bothered by the devastation brought about by Typhoon Pablo," President Benigno Aquino III said, using the name the storm was given locally. "But it is in situations like this that our strength as a nation is measured. We will rise as one nation again."
Bopha tore through the main southern island of Mindanao on Dec. 3 before crossing the central Philippines and stalling over the South China Sea. Most of the deaths were in the Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental province on Mindanao.
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