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The death toll from the floods in the Philippines rose to 33

Panic reigns in the Philippines. The dead from the floods that shook the country increased to 33 while 20 more people are missing.

According to the police, four people were fishing yesterday Wednesday (12/28) in a river in Davao Oriental province, Mindanao island, when they were overwhelmed as the place where they were was hit by a landslide.

The body of a 62-year-old man has been recovered and investigations are underway to identify three other people, Mati police chief Ernesto Gregore told AFP.

Across the country hundreds of houses were leveled by the floods and over 50,000 hectares of crops were destroyedwhile tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes, according to the national disaster agency.

Most of the victims, as reported by the Athens News Agency, were in Misamis Occidental province on the island of Mindanao, where at least fifteen people were lost, most of them drowned, the agency said. The rest of the victims were in seven more provinces.

The Philippines are among the countries in the world characterized as most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Scientists warn that the storms that hit the archipelago every year will become increasingly fierce as the temperature of the planet rises.

Source: News Beast

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