At least 10 reported dead in landslides in Cordillera

October 31, 2018

At least  10 persons were reported dead from landslides due to Typhoon "Rosita" in the Cordillera Administrative Region  but nearly 30 persons in a Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)  office remain missing, police said Wednesday.

In a report by regional police director Chief Superintendent Rolando Nana, three unidentified dead persons were recovered by civilians while two unidentified persons was carried away by the landslide that buried the DPWH 2nd Engineering District of Mountain Province at Sitio Hakrang, Banawel, Natonin, Mountain Province.

The other deaths were a five-year-old was killed when their house was swept by a landslide Tuesday around 5: 10 pm in Mabilong, Lubuagan, Kalinga province.

In Sitio Higib, Batad, Banaue, Ifugao, Baltazar Pinnay, 48, and his three daughters Rexibelle, 12; Rhezel, 10, and Rydbell,  8, were inside their house when hit by a landslide that caused their death. The victims' bodies were retrieved at 7 pm and brought to the house of their relative at Sitio Bobloy of the same barangay, police said.

A 34-year-old bed ridden woman also died in a fire the struck Patay, Sagada, Mountain Province, and another drowned in Natonin.

The Mountain Province provincial disaster office said local responders from Natonin reached the area where the DPWH building being used as shelter for laborers and some evacuees was buried.

Around 29 persons are underneath the mud and rocks.  Twenty are DPWH laborers, a project engineer, three security guards and five local evacuees.  DMS