Heavy rains cause flooding, landslides in Eastern, Northern Samar

Joey Gabieta 12/24/2022

TACLOBAN CITY — Heavy rains due to a shear line have resulted in flooding and landslides in Eastern Samar and Northern Samar provinces with several fishermen reported missing and some eventually rescued. In Jipapad town, Eastern Samar,…

12-year-old girl found dead in Samar after disappearing for 5 days

Joey Gabieta, Robert Dejon - @inquirerdotnet 10/10/2022

TACLOBAN CITY — A 12-year-old girl was found dead in a grassy area in Basey, Samar on Sunday afternoon, five days since she went missing. The decomposing body of Jelieca Lacaba was found by Arnulfo Agulla in…

Student stabs teacher dead in Samar town

Joey Gabieta 10/04/2022

TACLOBAN CITY — A 32-year-old senior high school teacher died after he was stabbed by a 19-year-old student in Basey town, Samar on Monday, October 3, 2022. George Lauron, a Science teacher at the Basey National High…

Leyte town mulls declaring landslide-hit village as ‘no-build zone’

Joey Gabieta 04/18/2022

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines — The mayor of Abuyog town in Leyte province is planning to declare Barangay Pilar a “no man’s land” after 80 percent of the village was covered with rocks and soil during a…

Agaton deaths reach 30; 27 missing

Joey Gabieta 04/13/2022

Rescue teams raced against time in search of people missing or feared dead as Agaton, the first major tropical storm to hit the country this year, unleashed heavy rains and deadly landslides in the southern and eastern…

36 die in Leyte landslides due to ‘Agaton’

Joey Gabieta 04/12/2022

TACLOBAN CITY — The number of persons who died due to multiple landslides induced by heavy downpour brought about by tropical depression “Agaton” in Baybay City, Leyte has reached 36 on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. As of…

Agaton kills 25, leaves 8 missing in Visayas, Mindanao

Joey Gabieta 04/12/2022

From a tropical storm, Agaton (international name: Megi) has weakened into a tropical depression, but not before heavy rains pounded parts of the Visayas and Mindanao, leaving at least 25 people dead and eight missing. On Monday,…

Army spokesman sees many NPA rebels killed after airstrike, heavy firefighting in Eastern Samar

Joey Gabieta 08/16/2021

TACLOBAN CITY––A heavy firefight followed by a military airstrike resulted in the deaths of an undetermined number of rebels in a remote village in Dolores town, Eastern Samar on Monday, August 16, 2021. Captain Reynaldo Aragones, spokesperson…

Calbayog mayor ambushed on his way to son’s birthday party dies in hospital

Joey Gabieta 03/09/2021

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines — Mayor Ronaldo Aquino of Calbayog City, Samar province was on the way to the birthday celebration of his son after playing tennis on Monday (March 8) when his sports utility vehicle (SUV)…

Injured Filipinos in Beirut blast rise to 24; one still missing

Dona Z. Pazzibungan, Joey Gabieta 08/07/2020

Ermie Enriquez has yet to recover from her shock. “The deafening blast happened just less than five minutes after I went down to meet the customer. All the glasses in our salon were shattered,” she said in…

Shocked OFW from Tacloban thankful for surviving Beirut blast

Joey Gabieta 08/06/2020

TACLOBAN CITY – Ermie Enriquez was still shocked. But the 35-year-old woman, who hails from Tacloban City, was grateful to have survived the massive explosion that killed at least 135 people and thousands injured in Beirut, Lebanon…

Hunger stalks ‘Ambo’ survivors

Cyrain Cabuenas, Joey Gabieta 05/20/2020

BORONGAN CITY—Strong winds accompanying Typhoon “Ambo” (international name: Vongfong) ripped the roof off the house of Octavio and Merlyn Alcido in Barangay Balocawe, Oras, Eastern Samar, last week, but the couple and their children chose to remain…

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