{"id":42933,"date":"2024-10-27T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42933"},"modified":"2024-10-27T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T08:52:39","slug":"at-least-126-dead-and-missing-in-massive-flooding-and-landslides-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=42933","title":{"rendered":"At least 126 dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/24\/asia\/philippines-tropical-storm-trami-kristine-deaths-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Tropical Storm Trami<\/a>\u00a0in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trami blew away from the northwestern&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/asia\">Philippines<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday, leaving at least 85 people dead and 41 others missing in one of the Southeast Asian archipelago\u2019s deadliest and most destructive storms so far this year, the government\u2019s disaster-response agency said. The death toll was expected to rise as reports come in from previously isolated areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens of police, firefighters and other emergency personnel, backed by three backhoes and sniffer dogs, dug up one of the last two missing villagers in the lakeside town of Talisay in Batangas province Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A father, who was waiting for word on his missing 14-year-old daughter, wept as rescuers placed the remains in a black body bag. Distraught, he followed police officers, who carried the body bag down a mud-strewn village alley to a police van when one weeping resident approaching him to express her sympathies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man said he was sure it was his daughter, but authorities needed to do checks to confirm the identity of the villager dug up in the mound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a nearby basketball gym at the town center, more than a dozen white coffins were laid side by side, bearing the remains of those found in the heaps of mud, boulders and trees that cascaded Thursday afternoon down the steep slope of a wooded ridge in Talisay\u2019s Sampaloc village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/11\/asia\/marcos-philippines-president-explainer-intl-hnk\/index.html\">Ferdinand Marcos<\/a>, who inspected another hard-hit region southeast of Manila Saturday, said the unusually large volume of rainfall dumped by the storm \u2014 including in some areas that saw one to two months\u2019 worth of rainfall in just 24 hours \u2014 overwhelmed flood controls in provinces lashed by Trami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by\u00a0Tropical Storm Trami\u00a0in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue. Trami blew away from the northwestern&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;on Friday, leaving at least 85 people dead and 41 others missing in one of the Southeast Asian archipelago\u2019s deadliest and most destructive storms so far this year, the government\u2019s disaster-response agency said. The death toll was expected to rise as reports come in from previously isolated areas. 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