Philippines floods: Storm followed by heavy rains caused flash floods and landslides in several areas. Authorities launched rescue operations in the affected region.
According to Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior minister for a five-province Muslim autonomous region governed by former rebels, the majority of the dead were washed away by raging floodwaters and drowned or were struck by debris-filled mudslides.
Rescuers and heavy equipment, including backhoes, arrived in the landslide-hit villages in Baybay. Its mayor, Jose Carlos Cari, said the weather cleared Wednesday, allowing the search and rescue work to go full force.
Manila: Villagers fled their coastal homes and sparked panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations in a central Philippine region Thursday as an approaching powerful storm brought back nightmares of last year's deadly onslaught from
Manila, Dec 20 : The toll of dead and missing from a cyclone that swept the southern Philippines has exceeded 1,000, a government agency said today as cities prepared mass burials for the victims.The government
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