Manila, April 14, 2022, SPA -- At least 121 people have been killed in landslides and floods caused by the first storm to hit the Philippines this year, which also displaced more than 200,000 residents, officials said Thursday according to the dpa. Most of the fatalities were from Baybay City in Leyte province, 599 kilometres south of Manila, where 81 bodies were retrieved from landslides. More than 240 people were injured, while some 204,000 residents were forced to flee their homes as raging flood waters swept through villages and rain-soaked mountains collapsed into the communities. Rescuers were continuing to dig through thick mud and earth searching for an undetermined number of missing in Baybay and Abuyog. Megi has since dissipated into a low pressure area, and weather was expected to improve in the affected areas, the weather bureau said. The storm damaged houses, crops, livestock and infrastructure worth an estimated 137 million pesos ($2.6 million US), the national disaster agency said. --SPA 10:17 LOCAL TIME 07:17 GMT 0013 www.spa.gov.sa/w1721051