More than 5,000 people had to evacuate to temporary shelters in the southern Philippines as tropical storm Dujuan brought heavy rains, submerging dozens of villages, according to the country’s disaster risk reduction and management agency.
Thirteen people, including a police officer, were killed and four others wounded before dawn on January 23 during a police operation in the Philippines' southern Maguindanao province, police said.
At least nine people were killed while 17 others were wounded after two explosions struck the southern Philippine province of Sulu on August 24, according to local military.
The Philippine military said on April 17 that 11 soldiers were killed and 14 others were wounded in an hour-long clash with Abu Sayyaf militants in the remote southern province of Sulu the same day.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck near Davao city on the Philippines’ Mindanao island on December 15, killing a 6-year-old girl and injuring 14 others, according to latest reports.
At least six suspected terrorists were killed in two days of fighting between the Philippine troops and Abu Sayyaf militant group over the weekend in the Southern city of Sulu, said the Philippine military on November 25.
At least 15 people died after a truck plunged off a cliff in South Cotabato province in southern Philippines on September 17, according to local police.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Davao Oriental province in the southern Philippines on September 10, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).