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After nearly a full week of continuous search and rescue (SAR) operations, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Monday, April 18, that it was already considering to stop looking for survivors in Leyte province, days after it was battered by Typhoon “Agaton.”
The death toll in landslides and floods caused by this year's first tropical storm in the Philippines has risen to 172, with 110 people still missing, the national disaster agency said Sunday.
The death toll from landslides and floods caused by this year's first tropical storm in the Philippines has risen to at least 172, with 110 people still missing.
Rescuers hampered by mud and rain on April 12 used their bare hands and shovels to search for survivors of landslides that smashed into villages in the central Philippines, as the death toll from tropical storm Megi rose to 42.
World News - BAYBAY (AFP) - The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 58 on Wednesday (April 13), official tallies showed, as rescuers dug up more bodies with their bare hands in villages crushed by rain-induced avalanches of mud and earth. Most of the deaths... Read more at www.tnp.sg