NDRRMC: Over 880K people affected, P9.7M agri damage due to Habagat, Butchoy, Carina

Over 880,000 people have been affected by the impact of the Southwest Monsoon or Habagat and Tropical Cyclones Butchoy and Carina, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Wednesday.

In its 8 a.m. Wednesday report, the NDRRMC said a total of 882,861 people or 183,464 families were affected by the weather disturbances.

Most of them were reported in Bangsamoro with 567,448 affected individuals, followed by Soccsksargen with 233,322, Mimaropa with 44,365, Zamboanga with 13,314, and Northern Mindanao with 11,901.

Of the total affected population, 35,388 persons or 8,230 families were staying in evacuation centers while 576,936 people or 115,668 families were taking shelter in other places.

Damage to agriculture worth P9,706,852 was reported due to the impact of the weather disturbances, according to the NDRRMC. Most of the agricultural damage was reported in Northern Mindanao with P6,597,193.

For infrastructure, damage worth P700,000 was also reported.

A total of 245 houses were damaged — 173 totally and 72 partially — due to the inclement weather, the NDRRMC said.

The number of reported fatalities remained at eight.

Seven people were confirmed dead, all of them in Mindanao: four in Zamboanga and one each in Northern Mindanao, Davao, and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

Another reported fatality in BARMM is still up for validation, the NDRMMC said.

Four of the victims died due trauma or suffocation by entrapment following landslide incidents in two sitios in Barangay Pamucutan, Zamboanga City.

The cadaver of one of the eight reported fatalities, who was from Maramag, Bukidnon, was found and retrieved from the Pulangi River in Kabacan, North Cotabato,

Meanwhile, the person who was previously reported injured in Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental after crossing a river with strong current has died, according to the NDRRMC.

The causes of death of other fatalities are not indicated in NDRRMC’s recent report.

According to the report, one person remains missing and two people were reported injured in Northern Mindanao.

Of the 96 road sections and 13 bridges affected, the NDRRMC said 18 roads and eight bridges were still impassable.

Power supply in 10 of the 33 affected areas has yet to be restored. Water supply issues were still reported in two of the three affected areas. Communication services remained to be a problem in one of the nine affected areas.

An airport in Mimaropa suspended operations. Fourteen of the fifteen canceled domestic flights have yet to be resumed.

Also, eight of the 11 suspended seaports remained non-operational. Due to this, 403 passengers, 31 rolling cargoes, nine vessels, and six motor bancas were stranded.

Classes were suspended in 105 areas and work schedules in 71 areas.

State of calamity was declared in Pinamalayan in Oriental Mindoro, Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental, as well as in Kabacan and Pikit in Cotabato.

Just today, Metro Manila was placed under a state of calamity.

Assistance worth P29,121,981 has been provided to the victims so far, according to the NDRRMC. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News