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TAGUM CITY, Philippines鈥擮ne person was killed while trying to help neighbors as hundreds of terrified villagers fled to safer ground as flash flood swamped two towns in Davao del Norte聽 early Thursday, officials said.
Rampaging waters mixed with mud cascaded from the province鈥檚 upper hinterlands down to several communities in Talaingod and Kapalong municipalities, washing away houses and sending residents packing to evacuation centers, said Sonio Sanchez, Davao del Norte disaster officer.
The flooding came even as the province has yet to recover from a similar disaster early in the week and many evacuees had just started returning home.
Sanchez told the Inquirer by phone that the fatality drowned while attempting to rescue trapped villagers in a banana packing plant in Barangay Sampao in Kapalong town past 1 a.m. Thursday.
The floods were triggered by incessant rains spawned by tropical depression 鈥淐rising鈥� since Wednesday night.