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The landslide hit the mountain village of Masara in Davao de Oro province on Tuesday night after weeks of torrential rains. Davao de Oro’s provincial government said in a Facebook post that 54 ...
The landslide area had been declared a "no build zone" after prior landslides in 2007 and 2008 [31] that eroded the area, whose soil is made of remnants of a prehistoric volcanic eruption, and buried the original site of Barangay Masara. [32] It also added that the area where the landslide occurred was traversed by the Philippine Fault. [33]
Davao de Oro's provincial government said in a Facebook post that 54 people had died in the landslide, raising its previous death toll of 37 earlier in the day as rescue workers found more bodies.
Among the missing were 27 miners who had been waiting in two buses to be driven home when the landslide hit, Davao de Oro provincial spokesperson Edward Macapili said. Several miners jumped out ...
January 28–February 3 – Floods and landslide caused by torrential rain, brought by the northeast monsoon and the trough of a low pressure area, hit Mindanao, [23] with damages reaching ₱3.62 billion; Davao and Caraga regions are the worst-hit; [24] Agusan del Sur, Butuan, and the municipalities of Las Nieves in Agusan del Norte, Lingig in ...
At least 399,765 people from 100,174 families were affected, including 100,533 residents who were left homeless, [30] while Surigao del Sur governor Alexander Pimentel ordered the suspension of classes in the affected areas until December 6 [25] and cancelled all Christmas parties in government offices to encourage donations instead.
Rescuers dug out more bodies from a landslide-hit southern Philippine village on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 11 as the number of missing rose to 110, officials said. At least 31 residents ...
After hitting Davao Oriental and Davao de Oro provinces, Bopha shifted through the southern and central regions of Mindanao, cutting power to two provinces and triggering landslides. More than 170,000 people fled to evacuation centers, as the system moved to the South China Sea west of the Palawan island province, eventually dissipating on ...