At least 75 people died following the recent catastrophic disaster in the eastern Philippines. Rescue workers continued to search for missing persons, it said on Tuesday by the authorities.
Heavy rains had caused flooding and landslides in the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions over the weekend. More than 25,000 inhabitants became homeless.
According to the Civil Protection Council, most of the deaths were due to landslides: „The higher-altitude residents were naturally safe from the floods, so they were not taken to safety and then hit by a landslide,“ said the agency’s head, Ricardo Jalad, the DZMM radio station , Every year, the Philippines are hit by around 20 cyclones, which cause landslides and flooding, among other things.
