Habagat triggers expanded red rainfall warning in Western Visayas

ILOILO CITY — The southwest monsoon (habagat) continued to dump heavy rains across Western Visayas on Friday, prompting the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) to expand areas under its heavy rainfall warning as flooding worsened in parts of Iloilo and Antique. In Heavy Rainfall Warning No. 5 issued at 2 p.m. on