After heavy rains in the Philippines, the death toll has risen to at least 39. The civil protection authority announced today that a landslide in Mati City on the island of Mindanao killed four people who had been fishing together on a river. Two teenagers were among the dead.
The Philippines have been hit by heavy rains since Christmas, which have also led to devastating floods. Floods and landslides have killed at least 16 people in Mindanao’s Misamis Occidental province alone, and rescue workers are still looking for more than two dozen missing people today. The water and mud masses also destroyed hundreds of houses. According to the civil protection authority, tens of thousands of people are still staying in emergency shelters.
The Philippines, with its 110 million inhabitants, is one of the countries most affected by the effects of the climate crisis. According to scientists, storms and heavy rain events in the western Pacific island nation are increasing in intensity and frequency as a result of global warming.