ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,033, according to figures released Sunday by the country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Children use a raft to make their way in a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains on the...
DAGUPAN CITY – The city government has approved four major road projects that will be implemented to address the perennial problems of massive flooding and high tide in the city. Photo courtesy of Liezle Basa Inigo City engineering officer-in-charge Engr. Josephine Corpuz said the program of...
A trail of destruction emerged as Severe Tropical Storm “Florita” left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Wednesday morning, August 24. Personnel from Baggao Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) in Cagayan assist residents from crossing the Bagunot Bridge...
All inmates in the detention facilities manned by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), especially in areas hit by tropical storm "Florita" are safe, the bureau's top official said on Wednesday, Aug. 24. BJMP chief Director Allan Iral said the initial action they implemented is to...
Still reeling from the devastating effects of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake last month, hundreds of residents in Northern Luzon evacuated anew due to flooding and landslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm “Florita,” the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said...
CEBU CITY – Several residents appealed to authorities not to demolish their dwellings until they are given necessary assistance as this city started a massive clearing operation in waterways in the aftermath of recent floods. CEBU City Hall workers demolish structures that stood within the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's capital has moved to ban the cramped basement flats made famous by Oscar-winning movie "Parasite" after four people drowned in subterranean dwellings during flooding caused by record-breaking rains this week. South Korean soldiers clear debris from a residential...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The death toll from South Korea's record-breaking rains and flooding has risen to 11, officials said Thursday, with eight more people still missing as Seoul struggles to clean up after the deluge. Partially submerged roadsigns are seen as waters from the flooded Han River...
SEOUL, South Korea -- At least nine people were killed and seven others missing in South Korea after record downpours flooded major roads, metro stations and homes, officials said Wednesday. People walk across a street during heavy rainfall in the Gangbuk district of Seoul on August 8, 2022. YONHAP...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- Major flooding in California's Death Valley on Friday stranded approximately 1,000 people, buried cars and shut down all roads into and out of the famously parched national park. This handout image courtesy of Death Valley National Park Service shows monsoonal rain...
Around 100 families from different barangays affected by flood in Quezon City on Saturday evening, July 16, were rescued by members of the city’s disaster response team. Members of the Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) and the Department of Public Order and Safety...
PEOPLE gather around a pickup truck that collided with a ten-wheel truck in Cordon, Isabela, Saturday, July 9. CORDON, Isabela – An architect was killed while three others were injured in a collision between a pickup truck and a 10-wheel truck Saturday, July 9, in Barangay Caquilingan here....
