The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Wednesday maintained its zero alert status on Mayon Volcano, indicating no imminent eruption a day after steam-driven explosions rocked the volcano and left five trekkers, including four German nationals dead.
The driver of a private van might have been rushing to get his young passengers to school on time when the vehicle hit a road gutter, slammed into a lamppost and fell on its side in Pasig City on Monday morning.
“Every time I close my eyes, I keep seeing my friends and fellow workers who died,” recounted Rodrigo, who said that he had not slept for the past two days.
A helicopter used by an oil and mining company crashed into a commercial building in a village in northern Peru on Monday, killing at least seven people, including five Americans, an official said.
Stephanie Nicole Ella, the seven-year-old child who was hit by a stray bullet while watching fireworks outside her Caloocan City home, has passed died, officials said Wednesday.
The number of missing persons here, many of whom now have slim chances of survival, could actually be more than what is reflected in the list of those who disappeared in the aftermath of typhoon “Pablo,” this town’s mayor said.
An elderly woman died Sunday night as floodwaters spawned by rains engulfed at least 14 low-lying villages in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, authorities said Monday.
Six policemen and one media worker were injured after violence erupted in an ongoing attempt by the Makati City government to demolish houses along Guatemala Street before noon Monday, the authorities said.
One person drowned and another was missing in Laguna and Rizal provinces on Saturday as heavy rains wrought by Tropical depression “Ferdie” battered the Calabarzon (Calamba, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) region.
One person was killed and nine others were injured when a wayward truck slammed into a convenient store in Agusan del Sur Thursday afternoon, police said.
A 12-year-old elementary student was found dead Friday afternoon, a day after he was swept by raging river waters in Liloan town, Cebu, the police said.
Two freshmen students of the Central Luzon State University died while three others were hurt when the tricycle they were riding in was hit by another tricycle and a truck in Barangay Bantog here on Sunday night.
A polio-stricken teenage girl was killed in a fire that razed at least 100 houses in Taytay, Rizal, before midnight on Saturday and left 500 families homeless. The victim, 13-year-old Leslie Ann de los Santos, died after she was trapped inside her family’s house in Sitio (settlement) Maahas, Barangay (village) San Juan, according to Romy [...]
