1 hurt in Catanduanes landslide

VIRAC, Philippines—Heavy rains spawned by a low pressure area in Mindanao brought floods to this capital town and a landslide in one town that injured a 66-year-old woman Tuesday.

At the Catanduanes National High School, the province’s biggest public school with 3,000 students, school officials suspended classes in the afternoon after floods emanating from rice fields started to enter the campus.

Small floods covered parts of the national highway in Virac, rendering parts of the road impassable.

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said another landslide also buried a section of the national highway in Viga town but no one was hurt.

In Albay, the council ordered the suspension of elementary and high school classes.

Albay Governor Joey Salceda said the rainfall was “more than heavy from 8 to 11 a.m.”

Members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines were put on alert for rescue operations. Morning flights of Cebu Pacific from Manila to Legazpi were cancelled due to the bad weather.