The heavy rains that battered the Philippines on Christmas weekend, inflicting nice harm and casualties to the nation, have inflicted 49 deaths in keeping with latest updates.
Each 12 months about 20 typhoons and storms make landfall within the Philippines, one of many world’s most disaster-prone international locations. The archipelago is positioned on the “Ring of Fire” alongside the Pacific Ocean’s rim, the place many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes happen.
The stability sheet of heavy rains that have been efficient final weekend in several components of the nation, particularly within the Misayas and Mindanao areas of the Philippines, is getting heavier.
In the assertion made by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), it was reported that the quantity of people that misplaced their lives attributable to floods and landslides brought on by precipitation rose as much as 49, whereas 22 persons are nonetheless lacking, and 16 are injured. Villages, cities and roads have been flooded, whereas greater than 50,000 affected folks left their houses.
The harm brought on by the flooding to infrastructure and agricultural land is estimated at 1.43 billion Pesos ($24.4 million).
