"MANILA (AFP) - – Hundreds of thousands of exhausted Philippine flood survivors crowded into schools, gymnasiums and other makeshift shelters on Tuesday, as the death toll from the weekend disaster soared to 240.

"More people are coming in by the hour.... We don't know how long we will be able to sustain this," said Joe Ferrer, a local government official in charge of a shelter on a basketball court on the outskirts of Metro Manila. Related article: Disease threat.

"We need clothing, food supplies, food rations and medicine."

The latest death toll of 240 was 100 more than Monday's assessment."

Source: AFP 29 September 2009.

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