Residents push a makeshift raft loaded with a motorcycle through floodwaters brought about by heavy rains in Propseridad town, Agusan del Sur province on southern Mindanao island on Feb. 1, 2024. Erwin Mascarinas, AFP
Torrential rain in Mindanao Philippines has triggered floods and landslides and left six people dead with one other person missing, rescuers said on Thursday.
The report said that the disaster was followed after the rain began to fall heavily in the wide areas of Mindanao which is the country's second-largest island, last weekend, officials said thousands were sent to emergency shelters.
The hardest-hit areas were the mountainous municipality of Maragusan, which recorded 23 landslides since Sunday, and the adjacent town of New Bataan where more than 10,000 people were evacuated from flooded homes.
According to the Municipal Disaster Officer, three people were killed and a fourth was missing in the Maragusan landslides.
"Our town is surrounded by mountains so landslides are an ever-present threat. It's been raining almost daily here," the officer said.
The report also said that a landslide killed a man while a woman was swept away and killed by floodwaters and another man electrocuted outside his flooded house in New Bataan, said disaster official Aeona Armocilla.
Swollen rivers flooded three villages, forcing the evacuation of 10,100 residents, Armocilla said, adding that it was still raining in the area late on Thursday.
Floods also hit the municipalities of Bunawan and Veruela in nearby Agusan del Sur province, with more than 5,000 people sheltering in evacuation centres.
Source: AFP
菲律賓強降雨引發洪水和山崩，造成6人死亡、1人失踪
救援人員週四表示，菲律賓棉蘭老島的暴雨引發了洪水和山體滑坡，造成六人死亡、一人失蹤。
報導稱，上週末，該國第二大島棉蘭老島大片地區開始下大雨，官員稱數千人被送往緊急避難所。
受災最嚴重的地區是山區的馬拉古桑市，自周日以來發生了 23 起山體滑坡，以及鄰近的新巴丹鎮，那裡有超過 10,000 人從被洪水淹沒的房屋中撤離。
據市府災難官員稱，馬拉古桑山崩造成三人死亡，第四人失蹤。
「我們的城鎮四面環山，因此山體滑坡是一個永遠的威脅。這裡幾乎每天都在下雨，」該官員說。
災難官員埃奧納·阿莫西拉(Aeona Armocilla) 表示，報告還稱，新巴丹省發生山體滑坡，造成一名男子死亡，一名女子被洪水沖走身亡，另一名男子在新巴丹被洪水淹沒的房屋外觸電身亡。
阿莫西拉說，上漲的河流淹沒了三個村莊，迫使 10,100 名居民撤離，並補充說週四晚些時候該地區仍在下雨。
附近的南阿古桑省的布納萬市和韋魯埃拉市也遭受洪水襲擊，5,000 多人在疏散中心避難。
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