MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars.

A further six people were killed when a Philippine air force helicopter crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while transporting humanitarian aid to provinces battered by Kalmaegi.

The bodies of all those aboard the Super Huey chopper that crashed near Loreto town were recovered after a search, the military’s Eastern Mindanao Command said in a statement without providing other details, including what could have caused the crash.

Kalmaegi was last spotted over

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