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Kalmaegi’s Deadly Floods Batter Cebu as Reports Put Toll Above 100

Officials still list 66 dead with 26 missing as searches continue.

Overview

  • Cebu bore the worst flooding, with AFP reporting 76 deaths in the province, including 35 bodies recovered in Liloan, after torrents swept through neighborhoods.
  • Divergent counts persisted, with the Office of Civil Defense confirming 66 fatalities and 26 missing, while AP cited at least 85 dead and 75 missing across the central Philippines.
  • Six Philippine Air Force personnel died when a helicopter crashed in Agusan del Sur during a humanitarian mission linked to the storm response.
  • Rains around Cebu City reached roughly 183 mm in 24 hours, triggering flash floods and landslides, and authorities moved more than 387,000 people to evacuation sites before landfall.
  • Cebu declared a state of calamity, and the governor said silted rivers and substandard flood-control works likely worsened flooding, as PAGASA tracked the storm west into the South China Sea toward Vietnam with sustained winds near 130 km/h.