At the least 42 individuals had been swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or had been hit by debris-filled mudslides in three cities in Maguindanao province from Thursday evening to early Friday, stated Naguib Sinarimbo, the inside minister for an autonomous area. The worst storm affect up to now was a mudslide that buried dozens of homes with as many as 60 individuals within the tribal village of Kusiong in Maguindanao’s Datu Odin Sinsuat city, Sinarimbo stated.