Manila residents battle deadly floods
More than 800,000 people in and around in the Philippine capital battle deadly floods today Really it’s big tragedy took place in Manila.Due to this widespread flooding people were suffering a lot of their facilities in manila.
Monsoon rains that have pounded Manila for more than a week eased slightly overnight, but the government said between 60 and 80 per cent of the megacity was under water, and the bad weather was likely to persist throughout the day.
“The roads in some areas are like rivers. People have to use boats to move around. All the roads and alleys are flooded,” civil defence chief Benito Ramos told AFP.
The death toll in Manila and nearby provinces stood at 16, including nine members of one family who died in a landslide.
The worst-hit parts of Manila were mostly the poorest districts, where millions of slum dwellers have built homes along riverbanks, the swampy surrounds of a huge lake, canals and other areas susceptible to flooding.
Even some of Manila’s richest districts were affected, including the riverside community of Provident where water had completely inundated the ground floors of three-storey mansions.
Inside the gated village of about 2000 homes, rescue workers on a motorised rubber boat drove past submerged luxury cars to retrieve children and the elderly from rooftops.
