Metro Manila, Philippines – As a number of areas in Luzon deal with flooding from nonstop rains, deaths still rise from the impact of recent storms and also from the southwest monsoon, now totaling 27, disaster management officials said on Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Benguet topped the list with 15 people killed from landslides.
Meanwhile, 17 people were injured, while one person is missing in Batangas City.
Severe weather from tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay has impacted 5.39 million people, or 1.53 million families.
The Office of Civil Defense tallied infrastructural damage at ₱3.5 billion and agricultural damage at ₱1.42 billion.
The government has provided ₱796.98 million in assistance to affected families.
Three tropical depressions (TD) surround the country, the state weather bureau reported.
#NenengPH is 675 kilometers east of Itbayat, Batanes within the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), while two are outside the PAR.
