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MANILA (AFP) \u2013 The death toll from mammoth floods unleashed in the southern Philippines by tropical storm Washi has climbed to 652 with 808 others missing, the Red Cross said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The devastated port cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in Mindanao island accounted for most of the deaths, the agency said.<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0 Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed for the victims of mammoth floods unleashed in the southern Philippines by tropical storm Washi that have killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pray for the victims, many of them children, for the people without homes and for the many missing,\u201d the pope said in an address in Saint Peter\u2019s Square after his weekly Angelus prayer before thousands of pilgrims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to assure the people of the southern Philippines of my closeness to them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross on Sunday said the death toll from the floods was now at 652 with 808 others missing. The devastated port cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in Mindanao island accounted for most of the deaths.<\/p>\n

Entire villages were swept away when the storm struck on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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