14 dead in widespread RP floods
06/23/2011Widespread flooding due to unusually heavy rains in many parts of the country has killed 14 people in recent days, the government said yesterday.
A total of 10 people drowned in villages lining the Pulangui, one of 11 rivers on the major southern island of Mindanao that overflowed their banks, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.
In two other incidents in Mindanao, a girl drowned in Cotabato City and a man was killed by the overflowing Lanang River, the government agency said in its latest report.
Two other deaths were reported on the main island of Luzon..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110623hed6.html
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