Monsoon, typhoons raise floods in 296 Pampanga barangays

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Days of heavy rains and high tide unleashed floods in 296 barangays — or more than half of 505 villages — in 17 Pampanga towns and this city, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said in a report.  It said the affected population in 346 villages reached