Philippines: Body of missing college student found
Police identified the victim as 21-year-old Jasmin Grace Casale of Cagayan Valley
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Police identified the victim as 21-year-old Jasmin Grace Casale of Cagayan Valley
MANILA: When deadly Typhoon Vamco struck the Philippines in November, an army soldier in a remote northern part of Luzon Island risked it all to save lives with an improvised rescue raft. Vamco made its first landfall in the Philippines in the late evening of Nov. 11. It was so powerful that all of Luzon was placed under a state of emergency. Cagayan province in the northeastern tip of the island, although not directly hit, was devastated. Floodwaters engulfed the province, turning it into what officials described as a murky “ocean.” Army Second Lt. Allan Kenneth Punzalan, a civil-mili...