WARNING - EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL<br/> This landfill in the southern Philippines has become a dumping ground for rotting corpses, following flashfloods and landslides which have killed nearly a thousand people.<br/> Funeral parlours and morgues in the cities hit hardest by Typhoon Washi - which swept into Mindanao Island late on Friday, triggering the disaster - have been unable to cope with the influx of bodies.<br/> Corpses are piled up inside the morgues, with others dumped in landfills alongside the debris from the typhoon.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (Cebuano) UNIDENTIFIED VILLAGER SAYING:<br/> "When I saw the bodies piled together inside the landfill, I was horrified. They treated the bodies like animals and left them there under the sun and without any covering."<br/> With more than 957 bodies recovered in different parts of the island, the mayor of Cagayan De Oro city said they had to find a solution.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (Cebuano) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY MAYOR VICENTE EMANO SAYING:<br/> "We have a problem because the funeral parlors are refusing to admit the dead bodies, so we had to dump them in the landfills until we can dig appropriate mass graves for them."<br/> The Philippine Navy is sending hundreds of coffins from the capital Manila to help with the burial efforts.<br/> An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines each year.<br/> Nick Rowlands, Reuters.
