Days of Heavy Rain Leave at Least 13 Dead in Philippines
More than 500,000 people have been affected as rescuers search for the missing after days of monsoon rains and landslides, authorities said.
- Non-Stop monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods across the Philippines, killing at least 12 people while eight more remain missing, authorities said.
- According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, more than half a million people across 33 provinces face the impact of the south-west monsoon, enhanced by two tropical cyclones.
- In Baguio City, a landslide buried several houses, leaving four people dead and six missing, while around 150 rescuers continue search operations amid a dozen other reported landslides.
- President Ferdinand Marcos ordered government employees to work from home and schools to implement alternative learning, while Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon acknowledged the need to fix "faulty flood mitigation interventions."
- Scientists say human-driven climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, while the Philippines, situated in the Pacific cyclone belt, is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons yearly.
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Manila: At least 15 people died from flooding and landslides in the Philippines after nine days of incessant rains, affecting more than 1.3 million people in 10 regions, with 98,000 displaced from their homes and tens of thousands forced into government evacuation centres.
14 dead as landslides, heavy rain batter Cordillera
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – At least 14 people have died in landslides after days of relentless rain battered the Cordillera, while swollen rivers and continuing slope failures isolated communities and left at least 15 road sections impassable across the region. Thirteen civilians were injured, while no one remained missing as of 6 am Tuesday, August 11, according to the Police Regional Office-Cordillera, citing data from the National Disaster Ri…
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Channel News AsiaDays of heavy rain leave at least 16 dead in Philippines
The rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, have led to school and government office closures across the main island of Luzon and flooding in the streets of the capital Manila. Seven of the deaths occurred in the resort of Baguio, as a rain-drenched mountainside collapsed on three houses, city rescuer Esther Banawe told AFP. Three people remain unaccounted for. "Rescue efforts are continuing, but they are doing it manually because of the heavy …
Days of heavy rain leave at least 13 dead in Philippines
The rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, have led to school and government office closures across the main island of Luzon and flooding in the streets of Manila. Four of the deaths occurred in the mountain resort of Baguio, as a rain-drenched mountainside collapsed on several houses, killing four residents, city disaster official Charles Carame told AFP. Rescuers were digging through the rubble in search of at least six others who remained mis…
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