ABUYOG: At least 24 people have been killed in landslides and flooding across central and southern Philippines, authorities said on Monday, after tropical storm Megi ditched heavy rain and disintegrated trip ahead of the Easter leaves.
Further than people fled to exigency harbors as the storm pounded the region on Sunday, the public disaster agency said, submerging houses, submersing fields, cutting off roads and knocking out power.
The central fiefdom of Leyte was among the hardest hit, with landslides leaving 21 people dead in four townlets, Baybay City disaster officer Rhyse Austero said.
Leyte’s death risk adds to another three people killed on the main southern islet of Mindanao, the public disaster agency said.
Prints posted on Facebook and vindicated show several houses buried in slush up to the rooftops in Bunga, one of the affected townlets in Leyte.
“ History the rain was so hard, it wasnon-stop for further than 24 hours,” resident Hannah Cala Vitangcol said.
The 26- time-old schoolteacher fled with her family to a hostel after waking to find near homes had been covered in an avalanche of slush.
“ I was crying because I know the people buried there and I was also spooked because there were mountains behind our house,” she said.
Baybay City council member Mark Unlu-cay posted prints on Facebook showing survivors from another vill, Kantagnos, being treated in sanitarium.
“ It seems like the entire community. was poorly hit by the landslide and the riverflow,” he said.
Unlu-cay said he stressed the death risk could rise after entering reports that other townlets had also been submersed by the swells of earth and slush.
