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by Andrew Beatty Agence France-Presse PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — More than a thousand people could still be missing after Indonesia’s devastating quake-tsunami, officials said Friday, drastically upping the total number of people unaccounted for a week after the disaster. Palu city on Sulawesi island has been left in ruins after it was hit by a powerful quake and a wall of water which flattened houses and flipped over cars, with the confirmed death toll now […]
(Eagle News) — Umabot na sa pitumpu’t dalawa ang bilang ng nasawi sa nangyaring landslide sa Naga City, Cebu. Ayon sa Office of Civil Defense ng Region 7, animnapu’t lima na ang natukoy magmula nitong September 30. Labingwalo ang nasugatan habang sampu katao ang kasalukuyan pa ring nawawala. Sabi ni OCD Regional Director Concepcion Ornopia, lahat ng mga kinauukulang local government units ay nagpasya na aniya na ihinto na ang search operations sa lugar na […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria, the country’s main relief agency said on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaster has been declared in the central states of Kogi, where the two rivers meet, and Niger, plus Delta and Anambra […]
(Eagle News) — The death toll from the landslide in Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet has reached to 113, the mayor of the mining town of Itogon, Benguet said in an interview. Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan said that the although authorities continue to conduct rescue and retrieval operations in the landslide area, the chance of retrieving more survivors have lowered since it has been almost two weeks since the landslide happened on September 15 at the […]
Gamit ang thermal scanner nakadetect ang mga rescuer ng heartbeat sa ilalim ng gumuhong lupa sa Barangay Tinaan, lungsod ng Naga, Cebu. Ang thermal scanner o infrared camera, ay isang kagamitan na may kakayahang maka-detect ng heartbeat ng isang tao sa ilalim ng gumuhong lupa. Nabuhayan naman ng loob ang mga rescuer nang may ma-detect pa silang heartbeat at umaasa silang mahuhukay pa nila ito nang buhay. Base sa pinakahuling datos, umakyat na sa 39 […]
(Eagle News) — Umabot na sa 29 katao ang nahukay sa landslide na naganap sa Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet. Patuloy pa rin ang retrieval operations dahil mayroon pang 40 nawawala. Inaasahan din na mas mapapabilis ang operasyon, dahil mayroon nang isang heavy equipment na nakapasok sa kabilang bahagi ng landslide. Isa pang heavy equipment ang susubok ding makapasok sa ground zero ngayong araw. Habang ginagawa ang operasyon, ang mga tauhan naman ng Mines Geosciences Bureau […]
(Eagle News) — Umakyat na sa walumpu’t-walo (88) ang bilang ng nasawi sa pananalasa ng bagyong ompong. Batay ito sa pinakahuling impormasyon na nakuha ng Philippine National Police (PNP) mula sa kanilang mga regional offices sa Regions 1, 2, 3, Cordillera Administrative Region at National Capital Region. Aabot naman sa animnapu’t apat (64) ang nawawala habang pitumpu (70) ang sugatan. Mahigit labing dalawang libong (12,000) pamilya naman ang nanatili pa rin sa mga evacuation center […]
(Eagle News) — Six people are now confirmed dead while about a hundred are feared still trapped in a landslide in Naga City in Cebu province that occurred Thursday morning after monsoon rains in the region. The landslide occurred around 5:30 AM on Thursday, September 20, after continuous rains in Sitio Sindulan, in the village of Tina-an on the popular tourist island of Cebu. Authorities identified the fatalities as Olivia Maratas-Menesis 63 years old; […]
(Eagle News)–The death toll due to Typhoon “Ompong” has risen to 29. Of the figure, Presidential Political Adviser Francis Tolentino said 24 came from the Cordillera Administrative Region. “Areas po ng Itogon, Benguet and Mountain Province and parts of Baguio…Karamihan po dito because of landslides, soil saturation, rainfall..,” he said during a press conference. President Rodrigo Duterte, for his part, expressed condolences to the kin of those who died. “I share the grief of the […]
BAGO, Myanmar (AFP) — Floods from a dam breach in Central Myanmar has left four people dead and three missing, a ministry official confirmed Friday, the first casualties reported two days after a portion of the levee collapsed from heavy monsoon rains. The deceased were three men and one woman, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, a director at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. “According to the information we got as of this […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from devastating floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala rose to 445 Sunday with the discovery of 28 more bodies as the waters recede and a massive cleanup gathers pace, government officials said. Around a million people are still packed into temporary relief camps and 15 are reported missing even as the government mounts an operation to clean homes and public places that have been filled with […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A string of deadly earthquakes that rocked Indonesia’s Lombok island this summer killed 555 people and injured nearly 1,500, the disaster agency said Friday, with hundreds of thousands left homeless. The picturesque island next to holiday hotspot Bali was hit by two deadly quakes on July 29 and August 5. On Sunday it was shaken by a string of fresh tremors and aftershocks, with the strongest measuring 6.9 magnitude. Indonesia’s disaster […]
