Members of the Marawi City Bureau of Fire Protection continue to manually search for bodies of four villagers believed to have been buried alive when a landslide hit Barangay Ngingir, Calanogas in Lanao del Sur before dawn Friday, July 10. Photo courtesy of Marawi City BFP
COTABATO CITY – Floods triggered by torrential rains across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), spawned by Typhoon Inday and the southwest monsoon (habagat), have affected at least 500,000 residents in three of the five provinces in the region, officials said on Monday.
Muhammad Farzieh Abutazil, director of Bangsamoro Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence (READi), said a total of 103,218 families, or 516,090 individuals, have been affected by widespread flooding that struck the region last week.
Most of the affected families are from the provinces of Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, and Lanao del Sur.
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