No survivors found, death toll rises to 29 Rains continue to hamper rescue operations

Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/21/2018

  Over thirty-six hours of search, rescue and recovery operations in the landslide area in Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan in Naga City have already yielded 29 dead bodies, saved 8 persons and left 41 individuals unaccounted. On…

NAGA LANDSLIDE UPDATE: Cimatu order relief of four MGB-7 officials, suspension of Apo Land’s quarry operations, ECC

Ador Mayol, Morexette Erram, Rosalie Abatayo 09/21/2018

Four officials from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Central Visayas (MGB -7) are ordered relieved by the Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu following the massive landslide in Barangay Tinaan, Naga City, south Cebu. During…

NAGA LANDSLIDE: Death toll climbs to 21

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/21/2018

NAGA CITY, Cebu–Three more bodies were dug out early Friday morning from the landslide-stricken community in Barangay Tinaan, Naga City, about 21.7 km south of Cebu City, bringing the death toll to 21. Senior Supt. Samuel Tadeo,…

Toll from Japan quake rises to 18

AFP 09/07/2018

Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18. Around 22 people are…

Death toll rises to 31, scores still missing

AFP 08/06/2018

The death toll from a massive dam collapse in southern Laos has jumped to 31, officials said, with scores still missing weeks after the unprecedented disaster that swept entire villages and farmland away. Information about the number…

Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 156

AFP 07/10/2018

Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan’s worst weather-related disaster for decades. The record downpours…

DEATH TOLL

MAO BA? 07/03/2018

Netizens were mixed over a Cebu Daily News report that 11 lawyers in Cebu had been killed since 2004 with the latest casualty being lawyer Salvador Solima, who was shot inside his house in Singson Village, Barangay…

Ermita fire: Death toll rises to 3

Morexette Erram 05/08/2018

The number of fatalities of the dawn fire that razed over 300 houses in two sitios of Barangay Ermita, Cebu City on Monday has risen to three. In an interview with Cebu Daily News, Cebu City Disaster…

India storm toll rises

AFP 05/04/2018

THE death toll from freak storms that hit India climbed above 140 on Friday as people told how they had no time to escape the ferocious winds which tore down homes and toppled walls. Amid warnings of…

SOLVE THE KILLINGS, POLICE URGED

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Benjie Talisic, Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/22/2018

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, Gov. Hilario Davide III and Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) President Antonio Chiu all asked the PNP to solve the ‘alarming’ spate of killings in Cebu before it hurts its…

Mexico quake death toll rises to 61

AP 09/09/2017

  Mexico City — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico struck off the country’s southern coast, toppling hundreds of buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into the streets in the middle of the…

Shocking death toll

Rina Jimenez-David 08/01/2017

That the raid on the residence of Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog resulted in the deaths of 15 people is shocking enough. The dead include Parojinog himself, his wife Susan, brother Octavio and 12 others, some of…

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