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By Leonard Acosta
PNA

Flash floods and landslide spawned by heavy rains on Sunday claimed the lives of two persons, while nine others are still missing in Camarines Norte, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said Monday.

Also, people in various evacuation camps have ballooned in number to 23,180 or 4,636 families.

The OCD said the reports have yet to identify the casualties, while nine fishermen from Mercedez town are still missing.

Bernardo Alejandro, OCD regional director, said the latest count on the number of families in evacuation camps rose to 4,636: - in the town of Mercedez, 2,948 evacuees; Labo – 1,093; Paracale – 194; Vinzons – 171; Daet – 150; and San Vicente with 80 evacuees.

Alejandro said flood waters submerged at least 47 villages in the towns of Mercedez, Labo, Paracale, Vinzons, Daet and San Vicente all in Camarines Norte.

Landslides also hit the villages of Malaguit in Paracale; Malatap and Canapawan in Labo town.

Heavy rains brought by the tail end of the cold front started at 1 a.m. Sunday, triggering waters in river channels to overflow in the area and wash out at least six bridges in the towns of Labo and San Vicente.

Major road networks in the towns of Labo, Vinzons, and the Manila South road in Labo town were rendered impassable to heavy and light vehicles due to chest level flood waters, but government engineers on Monday started to clear the area of debris.

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