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SunStar Eastern Visayas flooding leaves 2 dead, displaces over 1,000 people
EASTERN SAMAR. Jipapad Municipal Police Station personnel, under Lieutenant Baltazar Cepeda Jr., lead a rescue operation in the flood-hit town on January 10, 2021. (Photo from Jipapad-MPS)
+ January 12, 2021 TWO persons were killed and 1,696 people were displaced after monsoon rains brought heavy flooding in 118 barangays across Eastern Visayas for the past four days.
The victims, who died due to drowning, were from Eastern Samar and Northern Samar, according to information from Police Regional Office (PRO) headquarters in Palo, Leyte on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
Lieutenant Colonel Ma. Bella Rentuaya, police regional spokesperson, said the heavy rains that triggered floods and landslides have destroyed an abandoned Mount Sinai Church in Barangay Abucay, Tacloban City and a seawall road in Barangay Dalakit, Catarman, Northern Samar.