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95 die in landslides, 59 still missing
The death toll in two major landslides that struck the Philippines recently has climbed to 95 , authorities said on Monday .Officials said as of Sunday a total of 49 bodies have been pulled out of the rubble in the mining town of Itogon , Benguet province in the northern Philippines .
Meanwhile a total of 46 bodies have so far been retrieved from the landslide that also hit a community at the foot of a quarrying site in Naga City in the central Philippine Cebu province .
In Itogon , disaster officials said at least 19 others are still missing after mud boulders crashed on a bunkhouse .
The bunkhouse was where small -scale miners and their families sought refuge as super typhoon Mangkhut barreled the Philippine main Luzon Island on September 15 .
Rescuers are continuing their retrieval efforts to locate 40 others still missing in the Naga City landslide that buried some 30 houses around 6 a . m . on Thursday .
Disaster officials counted nearly 200 deaths in typhoon Mangkhut and the twin landslides that struck the Philippines recently.
Almost 1 . 6 million farmers and fishermen were affected by Mangkhut, the strongest typhoon to hit not only the Philippines but the region this year .
Data showed that 80 to 90 per cent rice and corn crops were destroyed in the affected area , jeopardising food supplies and devastating poor farmers who were counting on their upcoming harvest.
Other livelihoods such as mining are also severely impacted in the typhoon â s aftermath .
Philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world .
An average of 20 tropical cyclones enter the Philippines each year of which around six to seven cause significant damage .
In 2013 , super typhoon Haiyan devastated the central Philippines , killing over 6 , 000 people .
In 2009 , typhoon Ketsana also caused massive flooding in Metro Manila , killing over 700 .
( Xinhua/ NAN )
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