MANILA: Tropical Storm Yagi dumped heavy rain in the Philippines for a second day on Monday (Sep 2), causing floods and landslides that have left at least 11 people dead, including a nine-month-old girl, officials said.
The eastern city of Naga was among the hardest hit as the storm sliced off its coast overnight on Sunday, leaving two people dead including the baby girl who drowned as floodwaters rose, rescuers said.
“The floods were above head height in some areas,” Joshua Tuazon of the city’s public safety office told AFP, adding that hundreds of residents had been rescued.
More than 300 people remained at evacuation camps on Monday, with local officials saying the floodwaters in the city of 210,000 people were slow to ebb due to high tide.
Two landslides killed two people and damaged five houses in the central city of Cebu on Sunday, the local disaster office told AFP.
Three people, including a pregnant woman, died later in a landslide on Monday in Antipolo, city information officer Relly Bonifacio told AFP.
He said the bodies of four other people, all drowning victims, were recovered on Monday in three other areas of the hilly community, hours after creeks overflowed overnight.
