Body recovered from Rizal trash avalanche
By Maricar Cinco
The body of one of the four employees buried in the trash avalanche in Rizal landfill was recovered under tons of garbage past noon on Wednesday.
The body of one of the four employees buried in the trash avalanche in Rizal landfill was recovered under tons of garbage past noon on Wednesday.
A 59-year-old woman was killed after she was trapped on the second floor of their house that was engulfed by fire on Tuesday afternoon in Minglanilla town, about 15 kilometers south of this city.
Tropical depression Crising has left four persons dead as it moves out of the country, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Friday.
Five persons were wounded when an improvised explosive device planted by still unidentified men at a public market in South Cotabato went off Monday night, police said Tuesday.
Two civilians were hurt when Moro rebels clashed in Maguindanao at dawn Monday, the military here said.
A soldier was killed in an encounter between Army soldiers and communist rebels in Barangay Tacayan in Tapaz town, Capiz, on Saturday.
At least five persons were reported missing while 400 families or 2,000 individuals were displaced when a flashflood hit two barangay (villages) in Malungon town in Sarangani Province on Saturday.
The death casualties from last week’s monsoon rains have reached 95 while the total number of affected people rose to almost 4 million.
Rescuers combing through debris of rock and soil at an abandoned hillside quarry site in Barangay (village) San Roque here on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two men buried by a cave-in earlier in the day.
Five people died and at least seven were injured as massive earthquakes struck off Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said Thursday.
Alert Manila policemen killed in a shootout before midnight Sunday two of four suspected holdup men after the suspects, who posed as passengers, pulled a heist aboard a public utility jeepney in the Tondo district.
Chances are “very slim” that the 71 people believed buried in two earthquake-triggered landslides in Negros Oriental are still alive, according to National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Benito Ramos.
At least 52 people were killed when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Negros and Cebu shortly before noon, causing landslides and huge cracks on highways, and violently shaking buildings, officials said.
