In the southern Philippines, heavy rains Friday night resulted in landslides and floods that claimed the lives of at least 31 people and left nine more missing.
Naguib Serimbo, the regional official of the journalists, said that most of the victims had drowned in flood water, or due to clay collapses in three towns in the most affected Magondanao region, noting that “the amount of rain water that fell at night was unusually heavy and flowed on the slopes of mountains and enlarged rivers. “.
Although there are still a few population centres that we have not reached, Sinarimbo stated his hope that “the number of victims will not increase,” noting that “the rains were fearful since Friday morning, which allowed the floods to decline in several towns.”
” He pointed out that “based on reports from the mayors and rulers and responsible for responding to disasters, 26 people died, most of them because of drowning, in the towns of Dato Odin Sinoswat and Dato Blah coasts, while five others were killed in the town of Obi, and all of these towns in Magwindana. People in Dato Blaw Centus and four other people who got lost.
The unusually heavy rains that caused several towns in Magwindanao and remote territories to become inundated during the night in mountainous regions with transitional plains were brought on by tropical storm “Nada,” which was predicted to hit the country’s eastern coast from the Pacific Ocean early on Saturday.
As the Philippines is situated in the packed fire ring, a zone along the Pacific’s edge where numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions take place, the southeast Asian archipelago is one of the planet’s most vulnerable areas. The Philippines experiences roughly 20 hurricanes and storms annually.
From AP.
Floods and landslides in the southern Philippines claimed the lives of 31 persons.
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