Four persons were rescued in a landslide due to relentless heavy rainfall in a residential area in Barangay Guisad Surong, Baguio City on Sunday night, Aug. 9. The landslide happened at 7 p.m. and affected three houses, the Philippine Red Cross said. The PRC said the four...
SANTA TERESITA, Batangas -- A 69-year-old construction worker was killed in a landslide that buried their barracks in Barangay Calumala here on Saturday night, Aug. 8. Police identified the victim as Teodoro Latumbo of Barangay Calumala. Investigation said the victim and his co-workers...
A landslide occurred in a barangay in Taguig, prompting the city government to evacuate affected individuals. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said the heavy rains in Metro Manila and other areas are caused by the southwest monsoon. ...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two cooks were killed and another survived a landslide that buried a restaurant due to heavy rains from tropical cyclone Maymay in Barangay Shilan here on Thursday morning, Aug. 6. The landslide occurred at around 8 a.m. Rescuers conducted retrieval operations and first...
At least two people died while more than 80,000 people were affected as tropical cyclones Maymay and Luis, along with southwest monsoon or habagat, continue to unleash heavy rains in Luzon and several parts of Mindanao. The two fatalities were due to a landslide that hit a popular eatery in...
CHONGQING, China (AP) — Rescue crews on Saturday raced to find survivors from a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left 34 missing. The landslide occurred in Pengshui County on Friday morning on the outskirts of Chongqing municipality,...
DAVAO CITY – Rain-induced landslide rendered a portion of the Bukidnon-Davao Road in Sitio Marahan in Barangay Marilog of this city impassable to all types of vehicles since Friday evening, July 17, according to an advisory from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Davao region. The...
DAVAO CITY – Responders are still searching for 11 persons who are still missing three days since a landslide and massive flooding hit three provinces in Mindanao. The number of affected persons in the massive flooding in different parts of the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has now...
The death toll from the combined effects of Typhoon “Inday” and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) rose to 18 on Sunday, July 12, as more than 562,000 people across the country have been affected while hundreds of travelers remained stranded in ports due to rough seas. The Office of Civil...
DAVAO CITY – Fifteen people were reportedly killed and several others are still missing in rain-induced landslides in Davao Occidental, Lanao del Sur, and Sarangani on Friday, July 10. Among the heavily-affected were towns still reeling from the magnitude-7.8 earthquake a month ago. Landslides...
The death toll from rain-induced landslides triggered by Super Typhoon Inday and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) climbed to 15 on Friday, July 10, after five more people were killed in a landslide in Lanao del Sur, adding to the 10 fatalities in a separate landslide in Sarangani. The Lanao...
Ten people died after a landslide buried a house occupied by two families in Malapatan, Sarangani on Friday, July 10, as heavy rains triggered by Super Typhoon Inday and the enhanced southwest monsoon saturated the soil, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said. Rodrigo Sosmeña, director of the OCD...
