In the Philippines, the death toll from a tropical storm climbed swiftly to 133 today. Police said, rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river. <br/><br/>Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the nation's second-largest island of Mindanao since yesterday, triggering flash floods and mudslides. <br/><br/>The Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, home to 20 million people, is rarely hit by these cyclones. Rescuers retrieved 36 bodies from the Salog River in Mindanao.