This photo taken and provided on April 11, 2022 through the courtesy of Hannah Cala Vitangcol, shows houses buried under mud after a landslide hit the village of Bunga, in Baybay town, Southern Leyte province, southern Philippines, following heavy rains brough about by Tropical storm Agaton.

AFP / Hannah Cala Vitangcol

 

MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers hampered by mud and rain searched Tuesday for survivors of landslides that smashed into villages in the central Philippines, as the death toll from Tropical Depression Agaton (international name Megi) rose to 28. 

 

More than 17,000 people fled their homes as the storm pummelled the disaster-prone region in recent days, flooding houses, severing roads and knocking out power.

 

At least 22 people were dead and 27 missing after landslides slammed into multiple villages in Leyte province — one of the hardest hit by the storm — local authorities said. Just over 100 people were injured. 

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/04/12/2174098/search-survivors-provinces-hit-landslides

 

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It is so tragic..... but we keep cutting down all the trees and then we are confused by landslides.