The Pigeon Express
At least 53 people have been killed in landslides and flooding in the Philippines as a result of Tropical Storm Megi. Rescue crews are digging through mud and wading through chest-high water to look for survivors in flooded villages. Officials have warned of the death toll from Sunday’s disaster climb. Villages around Baybay city in […]
Two Filipinos who survived the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai have died of dehydration, according to local media, as people in storm-ravaged areas pleaded for food and water and officials warned of potential looting in the absence of urgent humanitarian assistance. The deaths on the hard-hit island of Siargao brought the typhoon’s toll to at […]
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has topped 100, official tallies showed on Sunday, as the government struggles to deliver emergency food aid to the most devastated areas of the country. The overall number of reported deaths stands at 108, according to AFP. More than 300,000 people fled […]
Fifty people were killed when a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the country’s worst military air disaster in decades. The C-130 military plane was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu province when it missed the runway on the island of Jolo. The plane, which was […]
At least 17 people were killed when a military plane came down in southern Philippines. The plane – Lockheed C-130 Hercules – was carrying 97 passengers, mostly troops when it overshot the runway while landing on the island of Jolo. Seventeen bodies were found at the crash site. 47 people were rescued alive from the […]
A six-year-old girl was among three people killed when a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippines island of Mindanao on Sunday. The girl was inside her family’s house when the building collapsed and killed her. Fire Service director Chief Superintendent Samuel Tadeo confirmed the three deaths and also said a market in Padada had collapsed. […]