{"id":27435,"date":"2018-12-30T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27435"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:22:38","slug":"storm-kills-at-least-22-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27435","title":{"rendered":"Storm kills at least 22 in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"92.6496408619\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 22 people have died after heavy rains brought about by a tropical weather system that hit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/philippines.html\">Philippines<\/a> on Saturday, causing flash floods and landslides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">According to news reports, three people were killed in a landslide in the City of Legazpi, Albay province, and hundreds of families were evacuated to higher grounds in Sorsogon province after a tropical depression brought heavy rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In Catarman, the capital of Northern Samar\u00a0<span>province<\/span>, 438mm rainfall was recorded in 24 hours, including a six-hour spell which saw 270mm <span>rainfall<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The tropical depression, locally known as Usman, displaced 4,900 people in the central Philippines, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.<\/p>\n<p>Video obtained by Reuters news agency showed flooding on streets in Daet, in Luzon, and a collapsed house close to the edge of a flooded river.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Coastguard said that more than 20,000 passengers were stranded at different ports across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A final warning has now been issued for Usman as the winds are quickly dying down. The rain is beginning to ease as it heads towards southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/vietnam.html\">Vietnam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further showers are likely across northern Luzon into the New Year as a legacy of showers trail behind the main system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 22 people have died after heavy rains brought about by a tropical weather system that hit the Philippines on Saturday, causing flash floods and landslides. According to news reports, three people were killed in a landslide in the City of Legazpi, Albay province, and hundreds of families were evacuated to higher grounds in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}