More than 400 people have been killed in the Philippines, and hundreds more are missing, after a typhoon hit the region overnight, causing flash floods and landslides.
Around 100,000 people have been forced to leave their homes.
Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90km/h, hit the resource-rich island of Mindanao late last night, bringing heavy rain that also grounded some domestic flights and left wide areas without power.
"The death toll might still rise because there are still a lot of missing people," said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary-general of the PNRC.
She said the hardest-hit areas were in the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.
Almost 400 people were unaccounted for, most of them from a coastal village in Iligan. Houses were swept into the sea by floodwaters while people were sleeping inside late on Friday.
The latest Red Cross figures put the death toll in Iligan at 144. Another 86 were killed in Cagayan de Oro, many of them children.
Five miners were killed in a landslide in Monkayo on Mindanao and another 21 people drowned on the central island of Negros, the PNRC said.
The national disaster agency put the death toll at 131, but other government officials also said at least 256 people had been killed.
The Philippines social welfare department said about 100,000 people were displaced and brought to more than a dozen shelters in Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.
The national disaster agency said it could not estimate crop and property damage because emergency workers, including soldiers and police officers, were evacuating families and recovering casualties.
Six domestic flights run by Cebu Pacific were cancelled due to the rain and near-zero visibility in the southern and central Philippines. Ferry services were also halted, stranding hundreds of people.
An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines every year, often causing death and destruction.
