At least 24 people have died in floods and landslides in the central and southern Philippines following heavy rains from a tropical storm, authorities said Monday.
Leyte province hard hit
More than 13,000 people fled to emergency shelters as the storm flooded homes, fields, and cut roads and power lines, the National Natural Disasters Agency said.
The central province of Leyte was the hardest hit, with landslides that killed 21 people in four villages, said Rhyse Austero, natural disaster management officer at Baybay City.
Photos posted on Facebook and authenticated show several houses in the village of Bunga, one of the most affected in the province of Leyte, covered with mud up to the roofs.
Three other people died on Mindanao, the main island in the south of the country, the National Agency for Natural Disasters announced earlier.
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