‘Ineng’ damage costs more than P1 billion

A few days after Typhoon Ineng, the country’s ninth tropical cyclone, provinces in Central and Northern Luzon are still reeling from its devastating effects with the damage to agriculture, property and the rising number of casualties.

According to Josefina Timoteo, Office of Civil Defense regional director and head of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the damage to the agriculture sector has reached P17,357,935.