Philippine officials say over 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to lash the country this year. Dozens more are feared missing nearly two million are swamped by flash floods and landslides spurred by the storm.
About 1.9 million people were lashed by the storm, including more than 975,000 villagers who fled to evacuation centers or homes of relatives. At least 4,100 houses and 16,260 hectares of rice and other crops were damaged by floodwaters at a time when the country was bracing for a looming food crisis because of global supply disruptions, officials said.
“The problem was, it was not a tsunami that inundated them but a big volume of water and mud that came down from the mountain,” he said. A coast guard video provided to media on Monday showed some of its men helping search for buried bodies in Kusiong by poking long wooden sticks into the muddy, light-brown sludge.The stormy weather in a large swath of the country hindered transportation as millions of Filipinos planned to travel over a long weekend for visits to relatives’ tombs and for family reunions on All Saints’ Day in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
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