Ifugao

In fact, not long after these findings, 37-year-old Brandon Lee, an American environmental activist who was in the Philippines on a volunteer mission, was shot four times in Ifugao province by unknown assailants after his group, the Ifugao Peasant Movement — a farmers group opposing a hydropower project — had been labeled an "enemy of the state" across social media by propagandists.

Brandon Lee, 37, who is married to a Filipina woman, was in a critical condition after suffering cardiac arrests during surgery to remove a bullet from his jaw after the shooting in Ifugao province in the northern Philippines on 6 August, according to a local rights group, the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance.

Authorities said landslides from Typhoon Yutu killed at least eight others in adjacent provinces of Ifugao and Kalinga and one person was confirmed dead due to widespread flooding in other parts of the northern Philippines.

Another landslide in neighboring Ifugao province killed a 48-year-old man and three children aged between 8 and 11, according to a police report.

Many of the victims of the landslide were born-again Christians from the Ifugao indigenous group native to the Cordilleras.