115 dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides in Philippines

Over 100 people have died and gone missing in the Philippines as a result of severe flooding and landslides, and the president claims that many places are still isolated by flooding.

Over 100 people have been killed and reported missing in the Philippines as a result of Tropical Storm Trami’s severe flooding and landslides, and the president stated on Saturday that many places were still isolated and that people needed to be rescued.

Trami, one of the deadliest and most damaging storms to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago this year, roared away from the northwest Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 81 people dead and 34 missing, according to the government’s disaster response agency. As news from previously remote places came in, the death toll was predicted to increase.

Numerous police officers and firefighters and other rescuers, supported by three backhoes and sniffing dogs, recovered one of the two remaining missing residents on Saturday in the Batangas province’s lakeside town of Talisay.

Rescuers deposited the remains in a black body bag while a distraught father waited for news of his missing 14-year-old daughter. When a sobbing local came up to him to offer her condolences, he followed the police officers as they carried the body bag down a mud-strewn village alley to a police van.

The man claimed that although he was certain it was his daughter, the identification of the villager who had been unearthed in the mound needed to be verified by the authorities.

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More than a dozen white coffins were found at a nearby basketball gym in the town center. The corpses of those discovered in the piles of mud, rocks, and trees that tumbled Thursday afternoon down the steep slope of a forested ridge in Talisay’s Sampaloc hamlet were placed side by side.

President Ferdinand Marcos, who visited another severely affected area southeast of Manila on Saturday, stated that flood controls in the provinces hit by Trami were overpowered by the storm’s exceptionally high rainfall, which in some places amounted to one to two months’ worth of precipitation in a single day.

“It was simply too much water,” Marcos said to reporters.

“Our rescue efforts are not yet complete,” he declared. “Our issue is that many areas are still flooded and inaccessible, even for large trucks.”

According to Marcos, his government would want to begin construction on a significant flood control project that can address the hitherto unheard-of risks brought on by climate change.

Nearly half a million of the more than 4.2 million people in the storm’s path sought refuge in more than 6,400 emergency shelters spread across multiple provinces, according to the government agency.

Marcos voiced reservations during an emergency Cainet meeting over government forecasters’ claims that the storm, which is the 11th to hit the Philippines this year, may turn around next week when high-pressure winds in the South China Sea push it back.

If the storm didn’t change its track, it was expected to lash Vietnam during the weekend.

Schools and government buildings were closed by the Philippine government for the Friday marked the third day of efforts to protect millions of people on Luzon, the main northern island. Thousands of people were left stranded when inter-island ferry services were also canceled.

On Saturday, the weather cleared in most places, making cleanup efforts possible.

The Philippines, an archipelago in Southeast Asia that is situated between the Pacific and South China Seas, is hit by roughly 20 storms and typhoons year. One of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded, Typhoon Haiyan, destroyed entire villages and killed or left over 7,300 people missing in 2013.