Death toll from twin typhoons in Philippines rises to 259
The death toll from two recent powerful typhoons that swept across the Philippines has climbed to 259, with millions of people displaced, authorities said on Wednesday.
The death toll from two recent powerful typhoons that swept across the Philippines has climbed to 259, with millions of people displaced, authorities said on Wednesday.
The death toll in Typhoon Kalmaegi that has hit the Philippines since Sunday has climbed to 66, with 26 more missing, the country's Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said Wednesday.
Sarit Suwannarut kept the pedal to the metal, increasing his advantage on top of the leaderboard to four shots at the halfway stage of the US$22.22 million International Series Philippines, even as India's Gagamkeet Bhullar remained in the chasing pack and in contention for a top finish.
The death toll from a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippines has risen to 69, officials confirmed on Wednesday, as rescue teams continue searching for survivors after one of the strongest quakes the country has experienced in a decade.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday expressed deep sadness over the loss of lives and widespread damage caused by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines in which more than 60 people have been killed and over 150 injured.
According to officials, the blast also damaged houses and commercial establishments near the warehouse
No doubt, India has not been sitting idle all this while. Besides QUAD, which is a formal strategic ‘partnership’, India has been forging strategic bilateral ‘partnerships’ with littoral democracies that are similarly under threat by an openly aggressive China, such as Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Mauritius, Seychelles, Malaysia etc.
In 1995, the Philippines had noticed strange Chinese military structures coming up on Mischief Reef in its Spratly Islands.
The death toll from a landslide in a mining town in Davao de Oro province in southern Philippines has climbed to 98, a regional disaster prevention office said.
The death toll due to landslides and severe flooding in the Davao region in Philippines has risen to 15, as per official data on Sunday.
