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Toll rises to 17 in Philippine landslides, floods
Loading ...Rescuers found more victims of landslides and floods from heavy rain in the Philippines, raising the death toll to at least 17, officials said Tuesday.
Nearly 13,000 people have sought shelter in schools and gymnasiums turned into evacuation centers on the archipelago’s eastern seaboard, civil defense administrator Benito Ramos said.
The dead include eight children, three of them dug from a wall of mud that buried their homes Sunday as they slept in the central Philippines’ St. Bernard township. The town in Southern Leyte province had one of the country’s worst disasters in 2006 when a mudslide buried the entire village of Guinsaugon, with more than 1,000 people killed.
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