Hello and welcome to the details of Days of heavy rain leave at least 13 dead in Philippines and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Pedestrians cross a flooded street after heavy rain in Manila on August 10, 2026. — AFP pic
MANILA, Aug 10 — Floods, landslides and accidents driven by a nine-day downpour equivalent to more than a month’s worth of rain in some areas have killed at least 13 people in the northern Philippines, rescuers said today.
The rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, have led to school and government office closures across the main island of Luzon and flooding in the streets of Manila.
Four of the deaths occurred in the mountain resort of Baguio, as a rain-drenched mountainside collapsed on several houses, killing four residents, city disaster official Charles Carame told AFP.
Rescuers were digging through the rubble in search of at least six others who remained missing a day after the incident, he added.
State weather forecaster Dan Villamil said rains in the vacation spot four hours north of the capital were already 47 percent higher than normal for the whole month.
“The rainfall recorded for August 1-9 was highest in Baguio, with an accumulated 1,413.2 millimetres,” he said, adding the city’s typical downpour for the month was 963.2 millimetres.
Parts of Metro Manila had recorded rain equivalent to about 90 percent of a typical August, he added.
Landslides killed six other people elsewhere on Luzon, while another drowned, one was hit by a falling tree, and one was electrocuted, according to a civil defence office tally.
While heavy rain continued to fall early Monday evening, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon told a news conference that floodwaters were receding.
“Our interventions are continuing, but we really need to fix the years and decades’ worth of faulty flood mitigation interventions,” Dizon told reporters, referencing a scandal over bogus flood-control projects that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
The Philippines is the first major landmass facing the Pacific cyclone belt, and the archipelago is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year, putting millions of people in disaster-prone areas in a state of constant poverty.
Scientists say human-driven climate change is making extreme weather more frequent, prolonged and intense. — AFP
These were the details of the news Days of heavy rain leave at least 13 dead in Philippines for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
