MANILA: Two European tourists and nine Filipinos were killed from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain north of the Philippine capital, police and officials said Friday. In addition to the two dead, a French tourist is missing after 12 European and South Korean hikers were caught in heavy rain after scaling Mount Pinatubo volcano on Thursday, said regional police official Chief Superintendent Leo Nilo De La Cruz.De La Cruz said the two fatalities were French, but Belgian embassy official Ivy Weisz later said that one of the dead was Belgian.However, six French nationals and three South Koreans were rescued by an air force helicopter.French embassy consul Arnaut Rayar said he had spoken to the French survivors earlier in the day but "they were too shocked to go into details."The foreigners had hiked up the volcano, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Manila, but after they descended were caught by heavy rain that mixed with volcanic ash on the slopes to fo...
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