A previous toll was 87 people killed.
The National Disaster Response Agency reported that about one million people were displaced due to… Floods caused by Heavy rain Which swept hundreds of towns in the north Philippines Due to Tropical Storm Trami.
Andre Dizon, police director in the badly affected Bicol region, located about 400 kilometers south of Manila, told AFP that “requests for assistance are still continuing.”
The police recorded the death of 31 people in this area, most of them drowned.
Residents were trapped on the roofs and upper floors of their homes, officials told AFP.
“We must help them as quickly as possible,” Dizon said. “We are receiving reports of children falling ill.”
President Ferdinand Marcos on Saturday visited Camarines Seu province, located in the Bicol region, where food and clean water shortages are increasing, while some areas remain completely submerged and difficult to reach.
Addressing government officials, Marcos said, “Our main problem is that many sites are still submerged in water.”
While he pointed out that there are systems that allow floods to be contained, he pointed out that “the amount of water cannot be controlled. It is climate change. It is a new matter, so we must find solutions.”
In Batangas, two hours south of the capital, the death toll rose to 54 people, according to a commander Police Regional Jacinto Malinao AFP.
Relief personnel use excavators and shovels to dig in and around a depth of three metres, in a painstaking search for missing persons in areas that witnessed landslides.
Agence France-Presse field correspondents who went to the area on Friday reported that roads were cut off due to falling trees, and they saw cars partially submerged by floods and severely damaged homes.
The Philippines regularly experiences storms and hurricanes, causing damage and dozens of deaths every year.
But according to experts, storms in the Asia-Pacific region have begun to form closer to the coast, intensify faster and hit land for longer periods due to climate change.