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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Gomez

A Philippines town in the shadow of a volcano buried in landslides it wasn’t prepared for

Philippines Landslides - (AP)

As a storm pounded his rural home below a ridge with rain and wind, Raynaldo Dejucos asked his wife and five children to stay indoors and keep safe from a lightning strike, slippery roads or catching a fever.

One thing the 36-year-old fish pen worker didn't mention was landslides. In the lakeside town of Talisay in the northeastern Philippines, the 40,000 inhabitants have never experienced them in their lifetime.

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