Twenty three more unidentified bodies were recovered from Eastern Visayas, five months after typhoon Yolanda ravaged the area, bringing the death toll to 6,268, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Saturday. The agency said that the 23 bodies (1, Guiaun, 8, Barauen, Eastern Samar: Carigara-3, Dagami-6, Dulag-3 and Magta-Ob-2, all in Leyte province) were all recovered Friday. It said that the missing persons at the height of Yolanda’s fury rose to 1,061 from the previous count of 1,039. The latest NDRRMC posting is part of its 107th situational report of Yolanda’s effect, saying that the injured victims climbed to 28,689 from 28,626 with an additional 63. Leyte had the highest fatalities at 5, 370. The NDRRMC posting also showed the death toll in other areas hit by typhoon Yolanda (19 in Palawan; 2 in Quezon; 1 each in Batangas, Albay, Camarines Norte, Bohol and Zamboanga City; 179 in Iloilo; 4 in Masbate; 14 Aklan; 86 in Capiz; 13 in Antique; 2 in Negros Occidental; 73 in Cebu; 267 in Eastern Samar; 5,370 in Leyte; 225 in Samar and 8 in Biliran). Monday 17 March 2014 http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/03/16/yolanda-deaths-6-268-and-counting/