Philippines... at least 4 killed in a landslide and dozens missing

Written By وداد السعودي on 2018/09/20

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Weather of Arabia</strong> - A landslide caused by heavy rains in the central Philippines killed at least four people on Thursday, and left dozens missing.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Rescue workers were able to pull out four others alive after boulders and dirt fell from rain on a residential community near a quarry on the outskirts of Naga City on Cebu Island in the central Philippines <span>.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The landslide buried between 20 and 24 homes and trapped everyone inside, according to Dibold Sinas, a district police official.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> City council member Carmelino Cruz told ANC news channel that rescue teams are searching for 50-80 people who went missing in the avalanche.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Heavy rains associated with Typhoon Mangkhut over the weekend triggered more than 100 landslides, mostly in the mountainous Cordillera region of Luzon island.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The police said that the death toll nationwide as a result of the storm reached 88, most of whom lost their lives in landslides, and 21 bodies, most of them workers, were found in a small mine in Itogon on Wednesday evening <span>.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span>Source: Reuters</span></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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