The toll, previously at 54, rose as two children were reported killed by a landslide at a quarry on the central island of Bohol on Sunday and another 14 victims were logged from Nock-ten, which hit last month.
A total of 178 passengers and crew were rescued from a listing ship off the central port of Iloilo on Sunday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.
Muifa, named after a Chinese flower, stayed offshore on the Philippine Sea east of the main island of Luzon, but caused heavy rains and rough coastal waters. On Thursday it tipped over a boat on Manila Bay, causing two fishpond workers on board to drown.
Nock-ten, which struck Luzon a few days earlier, left 66 people dead and 17 others missing, according to the council`s updated toll.
Most Manila schools declared a holiday Tuesday as another weather disturbance loomed over Luzon`s west coast with the potential to develop into a storm, prompting the state weather service to forecast heavy rain and possible flooding.
An average of 20 storms and typhoons, many of them deadly, hit the Philippines annually. Nock-ten, named after a Laotian bird, was the 10th this year, and Muifa the 11th.
(Uu.H-AK)
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