ROADSIDE PERIL Heavy equipment clears debris from a landslide-hit road in Barangay Kapatan, Glan, Sarangani, after heavy rains from Typhoon “Inday” (international name: Bavi) and the enhanced southwest monsoon triggered deadly landslides that killed eight people in nearby Malapatan and five others Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, on Friday. —PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTIN FERNANDO BERNAD JR./SARANGANI PIO
KORONADAL CITY — At least 13 people were killed and eight others remained missing after separate landslides triggered by heavy rains from Typhoon Inday (international name: Bavi) and the enhanced southwest monsoon struck parts of Mindanao on Friday, as flooding affected more than 18,000 families across the Bangsamoro region.
Eight people died and two remained missing after a landslide buried two houses in Sitio Blesong Fundao, Barangay Poblacion, Malapatan, Sarangani, before dawn on Friday.
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Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) chief Mark Christopher Quiño said the houses, occupied by the Maladian and Yaton families, were built along a mountainside.FEATURED STORIES
