Typhoon Ompong made landfall in Baggao, Cagayan on Saturday, by 1:40 a.m., and has left a trail of destruction and eight persons dead before leaving the Philippine area of responsibility.
It’s an act of terror.
Hundreds of civilians have evacuated from their homes earlier this week as the Armed Forces of the Philippines conducted airstrikes in two Maguindanao towns, a Moro group said.
Human rights group Karapatan slammed the recently revealed directive of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to compile a list of alleged New People’s Army (NPA) associates as an attack on rights defenders.
A progressive labor group here blamed President Rodrigo Duterte's pronouncement tagging their group as a communist front for the intensified attacks against workers and their unions in Compostella Valley province.