PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> They're still finding the bodies nearly two weeks after tropical storm Washi brought deadly chaos to the southern Philippines island of Mindanao.<br/> By the 27th of December the figure was put at 1, 453.<br/> Hundreds are still missing.<br/> Rescue teams have widened their search to a radius of 300 kilometres, after fishermen found some of the casualties drifting near another island to the north.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Unidentified rescue worker saying (Visayan):<br/> "We will continue our retrieval operations until everyone has been accounted for."<br/> More than 300, 000 were forced to flee their homes when Washi sent torrents of water, mud and logs through riverside and coastal villages.<br/> They've taken refuge in emergency shelters.<br/> It's one of the country's worst natural disasters in two decades.<br/> The president has ordered an investigation into why officials allowed the construction of houses in dangerous area and had not stopped illegal logging.<br/> Paul Chapman, Reuters
