Christmas weekend floods death toll hits 51 — NDRRMC

This handout photo taken on December 25, 2022 and received on December 26 from the Philippine Coast Guard shows rescuers evacuating people from a flooded area in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental. – Two people were killed and nearly 46,000 others fled their homes as Christmas Day floods dampened the mainly Catholic Philippines’s most important holiday, civil defence officials said on December 26. (Photo by Handout / Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)  

MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from the massive Christmas weekend floods in parts of Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao climbed to 51, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said in its latest incident report on Monday.

Most of the deaths were reported in Northern Mindanao with 25 fatalities.

The Bicol region logged nine deaths, while Eastern Visayas listed  five deaths; followed by the Zamboanga Peninsula and Davao region with four deaths each; Caraga region with three deaths while a lone fatality was recorded in the  the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) region.

Nineteen persons remain missing while 16 others were injured, 

A total of 13,814 families or 50,009 individuals were also displaced. 

Agricultural damage, far, is estimated at P245 million while damage to infrastructure was pegged at P1.13 billion.

The shear line triggered moderate to heavy and at times intense rains over parts of southern part  of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao in late December, which resulted in massive flooding, according to the state weather bureau.

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