98 killed in Maco landslide, 9 more missing
THE number of retrieved bodies from the landslide that hit a village in Maco town in Davao de Oro has reached 98, local authorities said Saturday afternoon, February 17, 2024.
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THE number of retrieved bodies from the landslide that hit a village in Maco town in Davao de Oro has reached 98, local authorities said Saturday afternoon, February 17, 2024.
DOS Awang, Maguindanao — The soldiers from 6th Infantry (Kampilan) Division together with the elements of the 549 Engineer Battalion are working tirelessly to
RELIEF OPS. Soldiers unload assorted relief goods from the BRP Tausug, a landing craft of the Philippine Navy, at the Baybay City Port in Leyte in this undated photo. The Naval Forces Central on Tuesday (April 26, 2022) said the landing craft transported 34 tons of relief goods for the victims of Typhoon Agaton in Baybay City and Abuyog town. (Photo courtesy of NFC) CEBU CITY - The Naval Forces Central (NFC) on Tuesday said the Philippine Navy's landing craft "BRP Tausug" transported 34 tons of relief goods for distribution to the victims of the recent Typhoon Agaton in the city ...
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine military and aid workers pledged on Thursday to keep searching for 103 people missing after tropical storm Megi ripped through central areas this week, burying many under landslides and killing at least 138. Megi was the first cyclone this year to hit the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands that sees an average of 20 tropical storms a year. "We are doing retrieval operations and still looking for the missing," Senator Richard Gordon, chairperson of the Philippine Red Cross, told Reuters.