Manila: Two persons died while another is reported missing from effects of the southwest monsoon and storm Yagi in Metro Manila, officials reported Monday.
Dioscoro Camacho had gone to move his motorcycle to a safer area from the floods in the village of Nangka in Marikina City on Saturday evening as waters started to rise from the torrential rains.
On Sunday morning, his body was found floating at the Marikina River in Concepcion Uno, several kilometres away.
Further north from where Camacho was found, the remains of Gloria Borlongan Mendoza, 61, from Capitol Hills, Barangay Old Balara, Quezon City was located. She too was believed to have drowned and carried away by the onrushing floodwaters.
Also in Quezon City, Edgar Indelible Bugaay a 50-year-old resident of West Riverside, San Antonio, Village Quezon City was reported missing.
Two days after the heavy rains, authorities are now able to survey the extent of damage caused by the flooding that affected Metro Manila, particularly the upstream areas of Marikina and Quezon City.
According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) a total 88,131 families or around 382,996 persons in the regions of Ilocos, Central Luzon, Metro Manila, the Cavite-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon (Calabarzon) corridor and the Cordillera Administrative Region, had suffered from the combined effects of Yagi and the southwest monsoon.
In Metro Manila, those affected had been housed in evacuation centres in Quezon City and Marikina.
Some of the Quezon City evacuees in Marikina City were temporarily housed in sports centres turned into makeshift shelters and were provided with collapsible partitions for their family’s privacy. Those in the cities of Malabon, Valenzuela, Navotas and Manila were housed in basketball courts.
The Presidential Palace said President Rodrigo Duterte’s was supposed to conduct an aerial inspection of flood-hit areas on Monday, however, the trip was cancelled because of the continuing inclement weather. Philippine National Police Chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde, and Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar, National Capital Region director conducted an aerial inspection over the Bulacan areas of Marilao and Meycauayan, Bulacan as well as over Marikina City.
Some areas in Metro Manila remain flooded, but a few of those affected had started to return home.
According to the NDRRMC, relief operations continue in affected areas through the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
The Department of Health earlier advised affected residents to report any symptoms of leptospirosis, a flood-borne illness acquired through exposure of open wound to flood waters infected with urine from animals.
