Torrential rain struck the eastern section of Mindanao island at the weekend, unleashing a fresh round of misery for survivors of Typhoon Bopha, civil defence officials said.
"Major rivers overflowed, causing people to drown in areas still recovering from Typhoon Pablo," local civil defence operations officer Franz Irag told AFP, using the local designation for Typhoon Bopha, which struck the region in December 2012.
"Many of the victims had not managed to rebuild and were staying in temporary shelters when they were hit by fresh flooding," Irag said.
Weekend floods and landslides killed eight people in Davao Oriental province and five in Compostela Valley, Irag said
The Mindanao floods occurred amid an international rehabilitation effort for areas destroyed by Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013
A photo taken on November 23, 2013 shows an aerial view of the damage to the town of Palo after Typhoon Haiyan hit the east coast of the Philippines
An average of 20 typhoons and storms kill hundreds of people across the Philippines every year, but the last three years have been exceptional in the ferocity of some of these disasters
Thousands of people fled rising floods and an approaching storm in a fresh round of evacuations in the Philippines, officials said on Friday Jan 17,2014 as the death toll from a week of foul weather rose to 37
Nearly 13,000 people left their villages along the flooded banks of the Agusan river on the southern island of Mindanao in the past 24 hours, the civil defence office in the region said in an updated report
More than 218,000 people are now temporarily housed in schools and other government buildings across the eastern third of Mindanao after a week of bad weather, civil defence officials said on Friday Jan 17,2014
Residents
stand on the edge of a bridge destroyed by flooding brought about by
heavy rains in Linamon town, Lanao del norte province, in southern
island of Mindanao on January 14, 2014
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