Tuesday, February 14, 2006
172 families flee Tarragona slides
A TOTAL of 172 families were displaced when landslides hit two barangays in Tarragona, Davao Oriental last week.
The landslides also destroyed some houses, buildings, roads, and churches.
A report from the Office of Civil Defense in Southern Mindanao showed that 54 houses and 21 buildings and roads were damaged or destroyed by the landslide that hit barangays Tubaon and Maganda on February 9.
Affected families in two barangays now reached 172 with Tubaon having the most number at 168 or about 1,008 persons.
Among the buildings destroyed were two health centers, a day care center, barangay hall, social hall, four school buildings, purok building, basketball court, stage, two teacher's cottages, two water reservoirs, a church, solar drier, corn sheller and their 13-kilometer provincial road.
The estimated cost of damage for the buildings alone was placed at P6.26 million.
The intermittent heavy rains in the area triggered the soil to loosen resulting in the landslide.
Municipal and provincial authorities are already conducting relief operations in the area.
Affected families are temporarily housed in safer areas.
The Municipal Board is expected to declare a state of calamity in the two barangays anytime.
Food assistance worth P2 million had been extended by the municipal disaster coordinating council to the victims.
The Office of the Civil Defense, Mines and Geosciences Bureau, Philippine Volcanology and Seismology, and the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration are set to conduct an ocular inspection in the area Wednesday. (BOT/With reports from Peng Aliño)
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