Shear line triggers floods, landslides in Luzon, Visayas

CITY OF CALAPAN, ORIENTAL MINDORO, Philippines — Continuous heavy rains brought by a shear line since Sunday have triggered flooding, landslides and widespread class and work suspensions across Oriental Mindoro, the Bicol region and parts of Eastern Visayas, leaving communities on high alert. In Oriental Mindoro, rising water levels flooded several barangays in Baco, Naujan,