At least nine people died as heavy rains over parts of the Visayas and Mindanao this week triggered floods that submerged communities in Eastern Visayas and Zamboanga Peninsula regions, reports from local disaster response units showed. /PDI
As of 10 a.m. on Thursday, the city disaster risk reduction and management office counted 5,546 families displaced by the floods. Some of them were rendered homeless after their houses were swept away by floodwaters.
Allan Rommel Labayog, an engineer at the satellite office here of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, noted that Zamboanga City received higher rainfall volume on Wednesday, at 90 millimeters, compared to Paeng’s rains, at only 70 mm.Samar worst hit Reports said that Carlito Dagumay and his partner, Winefreda Grafil, were on a boat when it capsized in Suribao River in Borongan City, Eastern Samar, on Jan. 9. Grafil’s body was recovered two days later in the waters off Maydolong town, while Dagumay remained missing.Sammy Losanggo, 57, died after suffering a heart attack as floodwater swamped his village in Dolores town.
Local reports said similar calamity declarations were also made in Can-avid, Eastern Samar, and Basey, Samar.Gov. Aris Aumentado said low-lying areas in Bohol were flooded while some mountain villages were hit by landslides.
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