‘Creeping silent disaster’: 3 buses buried in Davao de Oro landslide
DAVAO CITY—Three buses transporting a group workers of mining company in Maco, Davao de Oro, were buried in a landslide on Tuesday night.
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DAVAO CITY—Three buses transporting a group workers of mining company in Maco, Davao de Oro, were buried in a landslide on Tuesday night.
REGIDOR Esguerra is not the typical OFW Filipino nurse. The General Santos native sports long hair, tied at the back, with a moustache and goatee. But his rugged looks humbly mask the heroic feat he pulled through from hell, the Gaza Strip.
THE Philippines evacuated almost 25,000 people to safer ground as typhoon “Goring” (international code name: Saola) is expected to hit land Wednesday before heading for Taiwan and Hong Kong.
ATHENS, Greece—Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including one in the country’s northeast that officials say is the largest recorded in the European Union (EU).
IBA, Zambales—Heavy rains spawned by typhoon “Falcon” damaged more than P18.5 million in rice crops and other agricultural products, destroyed portions of dikes and triggered landslides, and forced 598 families to evacuate their homes amid rising floodwaters in Zambales since Friday.
Supertyphoon “Egay” (international code name Doksuri) slammed an island and lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain Wednesday, displacing nearly 16,000 villagers as it blew tin roofs off rural houses, flooded low-lying villages and knocked out power, officials said.
South Korean rescue workers pulled seven bodies from a flooded tunnel where around 15 vehicles were trapped in muddy water, as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes across the country. Flooding and landslides have killed at least 33 people in Korea and forced thousands to evacuate, officials said Sunday.
LEGAZPI CITY—A gentle eruption of the Philippines’s most active volcano that has forced nearly 18,000 people to flee to emergency shelters could last for months and create a protracted crisis, officials said Wednesday.
As the Mayon Volcano in Albay continues to show signs of unrest, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) provided relief aid to thousands of displaced individuals and families who live near the volcano’s danger zones.
THE Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has assured its support to the towns and municipalities that will be affected by Mayon volcano in Albay and Taal volcano in Batangas, which continued to show unrest and forced the evacuation of already more than 2, 000 families in Albay.
THE Regional Field Office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) announced it is closely monitoring the situation in the province following the alert level raised by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) for Mayon Volcano.
KHERSON, Ukraine — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined structure falling into the flooded river, hundreds of submerged homes, greenhouses, even a church — and no evidence of an attack from above, as Russia alleges.
Philippine troops, police and rescue workers began forcibly evacuating residents near Mayon Volcano on Friday as its increasing unrest indicated a violent eruption of one of the country’s most active volcanoes is possible within weeks or days.
KYIV, Ukraine — The fallout from the breach of a river dam along a frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine continued to wreak havoc on lives, livelihoods and the environment on Wednesday.
BEIRUT—A stalled population transfer resumed on Saturday after a deadly explosion killed at least 100, including children, government supporters and opposition fighters, at an evacuation point—adding new urgency to the widely criticized operation.
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