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(KPL/VNA) – At least seven people, including five children, were killed after a landslide buried a house following days of heavy rains in the southern province of Davao de Oro, the Philippines.
(KPL/VNA) – At least seven people, including
five children, were killed after a landslide buried a house following days of
heavy rains in the southern province of Davao de Oro, the Philippines.
Ednar Dayanghirang, director of the regional
civil defence agency on January 18 said that two other people were injured and
approximately 10 were missing. Authorities suspended search and rescue
operations due to continuing rains in a residential area for small-scale
miners.
According to data from the national disaster
agency, heavy rains and floods have affected more than 187,000 people in four
provinces in the Davao region. Landslides and floods are frequent in the
Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands that is hit by about 20
tropical storms annually.
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