After the passage of devastating tropical storm megi throughout the central and southern parts of the Philippine Islands, the authorities of that country reported at least 167 killed and another 110 people missingnumbers rising daily as rescuers find corpses buried by landslides.

The National Council for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction has indicated in its last count that the hurricane directly affected 1.9 million inhabitants.

The province most affected by the aftermath of the typhoon is Leyte, where landslides covered some townsespecially those in Baybay and Abuyog, where emergency teams are still digging with little hope of finding anyone alive.

Ang 580 floods and 89 landslides They left nine bridges and 69 sections of highway unusable, damaged nearly 10,000 homes and destroyed crops worth more than $ 4.6 million.

Tropical typhoon Megi, christened in the Philippines as Agaton, entered the east coast of the country on Sunday in a northwesterly direction, causing floods and landslides in the Visayas and Mindadao archipelagos, in the center and south of the country. .

The destruction of Megi, which hit the country with the most Catholics in Asia before the celebration of Holy Week, shocked authorities, declared the minimum alert before it hit the ground and there was a commotion.

The Philippines, a country prone to natural disasters

Far from being an isolated event, the Philippines is known as a countries prone to disasters. Without further ado, register a average of 20 storms per year.

Last December, Typhoon Rai, the strongest to hit the country in 2020, left at least 409 dead. Meanwhile, Typhoon Haiyán, the largest typhoon to hit Philippine territory, caused in November 2013 several 7,000 died.

With information from EFE.