The dying toll from flooding and landslides attributable to Christmas Day rains within the southern Philippines has risen to 44, with 28 others nonetheless unaccounted for, the nationwide catastrophe company says.
Injury to infrastructure and crops has been estimated at 1.36 billion pesos ($A36 million), it stated in a bulletin.
Heavy rains submerged villages, cities and highways within the Visayas and Mindanao areas on Christmas Day, forcing greater than 50,000 individuals to flee their properties.
The floods had subsided however intermittent rains continued, the company stated.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr stated he could go to the stricken areas to evaluate the scenario after his scheduled journey to China from January three to five.
“Sadly, the rainfall continues. So we now have to maintain watching the opposite areas as properly,” a presidential palace assertion quoted him as saying.
-AAP
