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Philippine floods leave at least 6 dead
AP - 1 hour 33 minutes ago
ILAGAN, Philippines - A week of pounding rains have flooded about 200 farming villages in the northern Philippines, leaving at least six people dead and four others missing, police said Sunday.
A strong cold front set off the heavy rains starting last Monday, engulfing rice- and corn-producing farming villages in the provinces of Isabela and Cagayan, close to the end of harvest time. The rains were expected to persist in the next few days, government forecasters said.
The bodies of three men, who drowned in two swollen rivers and a creek, were found in Isabela's capital town of Ilagan and nearby villages Saturday. A woman and three fishermen were reported missing, Isabela provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Dominador Aquino Jr. said.
Floodwaters engulfed entire huts in some low-lying villages, disaster-response officials said, adding about 15,000 people have fled to evacuation centers and higher ground in the mountainous province, about 205 miles (330 kilometers) north of the capital, Manila.
Isabela Governor Grace Padaca has long blamed illegal logging for frequent flooding in the province.
In Cagayan, villagers separately recovered Saturday the bodies of a boy who fell into a farm fertilizer pit and two men who drowned in two swollen drivers, said Chief Superintendent Roberto Damian.
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