Nine people have been killed in the Philippines and 11 were missing on Tuesday due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, the national disaster agency said.
Kompasu, with maximum sustained winds of 100 kilometres per hour, had absorbed remnants of an earlier cyclone before making landfall in the Philippines on Monday evening. Nearly 1,600 people were evacuated.
Authorities were conducting search and rescue operations for 11 people missing mostly after landslides.People cross floodwaters caused by tropical cyclone Kompasu during an evacuation assisted by the Philippine Coast Guard at Brooke's Point, Palawan, in the Philippines, Ocotober 12, 2021, in this image obtained via social media.
Rescue personnel were at the scene, while power and water restoration and road clearing was ongoing, he added.
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