Philippine troops and aid workers vowed on Thursday to search for the 103 missing persons in the aftermath of Hurricane Megi, which killed at least 138 people and killed at least 138 peopleof the more than 7,600 islands that see an average of 20 tropical cyclones a year.
Three died in Cebu
Rescuers were not immediately allowed to evacuate the affected areas due to rain and unstable soils, Gordon said. “It killed because it dropped a lot of rain and hit the mountains.” Of the dead, 101 from Baybay, a mountainous area prone to landslides in Leyte province, where more than 200 people were injured, the city government said. A landslide has killed 31 people in the town of Leyte in Abuyog. Three people died in Cebu and Samaria and three people drowned in other provinces, police and the national disaster management agency said.
Search and rescue operations
“The search, rescue and retrieval will continue,” the Philippine Army’s Baybay Army said on Facebook. Elsewhere, rescuers had to use rubber boats to cover the ground. Megi, which receded on Sunday with strong winds of up to 65 km (40 miles) per hour and a hurricane of up to 80 kph (49 mph), since then. scattered. More than 162,000 residents took refuge in the migration areas, government data showed. In December, phase 5 of the Rai hurricane devastated central Philippines, killing 405 people and injuring about 1,400. Hurricane Haiyan, one of the deadliest hurricanes ever recorded, killed 6,300 people in 2013.
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