Rescue workers lend aid at a flooded village in the town of Gonzaga, Cagayan province, Philippines, on October 12, 2021. At least 19 people have died in the wake of Typhoon Kompasu which triggered landslides and flash floods across the Philippines this week. – EPA/Gonzaga Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office handout, October 14, 2021.
THE death toll from a storm that triggered landslides and flash floods across the Philippines has risen to at least 19, authorities said today, linking the extreme rainfall to climate change.
Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu dumped more than a month’s worth of rain in two days as it swept across the archipelago nation this week, national disaster agency spokesman Mark Timbal told AFP.
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