MANILA (AFP) - Thousands of people are fleeing rising floodwaters in a fresh round of evacuations in the southern Philippines, officials said Friday as the death toll from a week of bad weather rose to 34.
At least 8,000 people fled villages along the flooded banks of the Agusan river on Mindanao island in the past 24 hours, said John Uayan, operations official of the civil defence office in the region.
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