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MANILA, Philippines — Authorities on Sunday mobilized additional personnel and resources to flood-hit communities across the country, ramping up rescue operations as torrential rains brought by the southwest monsoon, or “habagat,” and intensified by two tropical cyclones forced residents in vulnerable areas to evacuate.
At least 382,000 people or 110,000 families have been affected, most of them from eight regions in Luzon and Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported on Sunday.
At least nine people have died, including a policeman who tried to save two of his colleagues from a raging river in Negros Occidental.
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