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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 ...
December 1 – An encounter between the army and suspected members of Dawlah Islamiyah in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur leaves eleven deaths from the militant group. [230] December 2: An earthquake, whose epicenter is located off Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, strikes major parts of Mindanao and Visayas. Three people are killed. [231] [e]
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)
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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]
Antipolo, officially the City of Antipolo (Filipino: Lungsod ng Antipolo), is a component city and capital of the province of Rizal, Philippines. [5] According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 887,399 people. [3] It is the most populous city in Rizal Province and in Calabarzon region, and the seventh most-populous city in the ...
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 ...