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A boy carrying a plastic bag with bread and eggs, rides his bike through a flooded road after heavy rains brought by Tropical storm Yagi, locally known as Enteng, in Baras, Rizal province ...
60 deaths On the night of August 2, 1999, a massive landslide occurred in Cherry Hills subdivision in Antipolo , Rizal , Philippines that resulted to about 60 deaths and 378 houses buried. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The landslide was primarily caused by the heavy rains associated with Typhoon Ising (Olga) and neglect by the developers and government officials ...
As Antipolo transitioned from a municipality to a component city of Rizal, Gatlabayan was elected as its first city mayor on May 15, 1998 and was re-elected in a landslide victory to a second term on May 14, 2001. [citation needed] Mayor Gatlabayan was responsible for handling Antipolo's ₱800-million budget and served its 500,000 residents.
The cathedral in Antipolo, Rizal, becomes the eleventh international shrine in the world, the third in Asia, and the first in the Philippines. [ 49 ] March 29 – Passenger ferry MV Lady Mary Joy 3 catches fire near Baluk-Baluk Island, Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan while on its way to Jolo, Sulu ; thirty-three die.
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Antipolo massacre (Rampage killing) 3 December 1993: Sitio Kulasisi, San Luis, Antipolo, Rizal: 5 (perpetrator's neighbors) Winefredo Masagca, believed to be "possessed by evil spirits," killed his neighbors in their house. [134] Maguindanao incident (Rebel attack) 13 December 1993: Maguindanao: 8–9 (all civilians)
On 20 May, a team from the Philippine National Police Special Action Force were aboard their vehicle when suspected NPA rebels detonated a land mine at San Jose village in Antipolo, Rizal at around 6 am. [105] On 13 July, the NPA executed Mateo Biong Jr., a drug cartel leader and former mayor of Giporlos, Eastern Samar. Biong was accused of ...
A television set containing an 8-pound (3.6 kilograms) TNT bomb exploded in the lower decks of SuperFerry 14 off El Fraile island, [54] starting a fire that engulfed and sank the vessel and caused the deaths of 63 people, while another 53 were reported missing and presumed dead. [55]