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(Eagle News) — The Department of Health has confirmed that deaths due to leptospirosis have almost doubled and reached more than 200 this year. According to Health Secretary Francisco Duque, the spike in the number of leptospirosis victims was monitored with the start of the rainy season this June when flooding became more frequent. The floods in the past few weeks that affected many low-lying areas in Metro Manila and other parts of the country […]
KOCHI, India (AFP) — The death toll from major floods in India’s Kerala state jumped to 324 on Friday, the government said. In a tweet Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said his state was “facing the worst flood in 100 years” with “324 lives lost”. The death toll from 10 days of floods in the state, a key tourist draw, has nearly trebled in the last 24 hours.
The death toll from “Basyang” has risen to nine, officials said Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by the storm struck Mindanao on Tuesday and killed eight people, the civil defense office in the region said, doubling its earlier figure of four deaths. “Most of the floods have subsided and all roads are now passable, but we have two people still missing […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Rescuers recovered two more bodies Thursday from the scene of the crash after a bus plunged over a cliff in Peru, bringing the total death toll to 52. Lima police chief Victor Rucoba said there were no more bodies to recover, and that the focus now shifts to investigating the accident and determining its causes. The coach fell around 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff on Tuesday after a […]
(Eagle News) — The number of fatalities in the fire that hit a mall in Davao City on Saturday rose to 38 early Wednesday, after authorities confirmed that a person who had been declared as missing had passed away in the deadly fire. New City Commercial Center mall employee Melvin Ga-a added to the list of the dead in the tragic incident that saw President Rodrigo Duterte rushing to the scene to console the bereaved […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A tropical cyclone that pounded Indonesia’s main island of Java has killed 41 people, the country’s disaster agency said Wednesday, more than double the initial toll, with tens of thousands displaced by severe flooding and landslides. Among the victims of Cyclone Cempaka were 25 people killed by a single landslide in east Java last week, the agency said. The initial cyclone death toll was 19. Some 28,000 people have been […]
SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — Clashes in the Yemeni capital have killed at least 234 people and wounded 400 since December 1, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. “Now we have 400 wounded reported and 234 dead,” Sanaa-based ICRC spokeswoman Soumaya Beltifa told AFP, in reference to fighting between Huthi rebels and forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh — who was himself killed on Monday. Strongman Saleh had on Saturday bypassed his […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The death toll climbed to six people on Friday after the corner section of a nine-storey residential building collapsed in the provincial city of Izhevsk, officials said. “There are three injured and six dead,” said the health ministry in the Udmurtia region of which Izhevsk is the capital. The sixth body was discovered earlier Friday, an emergencies ministry official told AFP. “A woman has been found in the building’s basement,” the […]
HOI AN, Vietnam (AFP) — At least 49 people have died after Typhoon Damrey slammed into central Vietnam, disaster officials said Monday, as heavy flooding cast doubt on a planned retreat for APEC leaders’ spouses to the ancient town of Hoi An. The weather system hit just days before Vietnam welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit in Danang and has left several areas totally submerged in the worst flooding in years. While Danang itself has not been […]
LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — The death toll from an explosion at a coal-fired power plant in northern India has risen to 26, the government said Thursday, as 10 more people died of their injuries. Several more victims are being treated for critical injuries sustained Wednesday when a boiler pipe burst at a plant run by India’s largest state-owned power utility in Uttar Pradesh state. A list prepared by the state government showed 26 people had died, though […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi federal and paramilitary forces on Sunday said they lost five men in last week’s clashes with Kurdish fighters, bringing the death toll for all sides to 31. On Friday, Iraq’s central government said its forces had taken back control from the Kurds of all disputed territory in the north of the country located outside the Kurdish autonomous region. The areas were captured as part of a sweeping operation by federal […]
by Julie Charpentrat with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco Agence France-Presse SANTA ROSA, United States (AFP) — More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the country were being rushed to California on Wednesday to help battle infernos which have left at least 23 people dead and thousands homeless. “This is a serious, critical, catastrophic event,” California fire chief Ken Pimlott told reporters. “We’re not going to be out of the woods for […]
