Monsoon rains flooded several areas in Manila Wednesday and triggered a landslide and a road crash. Work and classes were suspended. Toll so far: 8 missing and feared dead. (AFP Photo)
MANILA -- Eight people were feared dead after torrential rains, reportedly the highest volume recorded so far this year, swamped Manila and nearby areas, triggering floods, a landslide in the suburb, and a road crash.
The landslide buried at least one house in the town of San Mateo east of Manila, leaving a four-year-old boy missing and presumed dead, civil defense official Elena Aldea told local radio. A one-year-old girl drowned in a flood in the same town.
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CEBU CITY -- The Cebu City Council asked the City Attorney's Office Wednesday to immediately find out why relief goods were allegedly buried in secret, instead of being distributed to the needy victims of calamities.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- A senior official of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said Wednesday a team of geologists would be probing the sinking of a large landmass in Glan, Sarangani next week.
BAGUIO CITY -- Over a hundred residents of Barangays Magsaysay Private Road, Slaughterhouse Compound, and North Sanitary Camp are complaining of alleged water pollution from Burnham Lake that finds its way into a creek near their barangays.
