'We have nothing left': Typhoon Odette survivors plead for help

A floating restaurant lays on its side in Loboc town, Bohol province on December 21, 2021 after it was swept away at the height of super Typhoon Rai that devastated the province.

AFP / Cheryl BALDICANTOS

LOBOC, Philippines — Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai that left hundreds dead across the country and survivors pleading for food and water.

Rai slammed into the popular tourist destination of Bohol last Thursday, dumping torrential rain, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees and smashing fishing boats.

"The house was destroyed, everything was broken," Tumanda told AFP, weeping as she stood in the ruins of her home in the riverside town of Loboc. 

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