25 dead, 150 missing in Compostela Valley gold mine landslide
By Mario J. Mallari 01/06/2012At least 25 persons were killed while up to 150 others went missing after a landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in Compostela Valley province yesterday.
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos, at a press briefing, said the landslip hit two communities in Pantukan town around 3 a.m., burying 30 to 40 houses.
According to Ramos, rescuers using hand-held tools pulled 25 bodies and 15 injured residents from the area, a mining site for small-scale gold miners declared off-limits last April by the Mines and
Geosciences Bureau (MGB) due to the danger of landslides..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120106hed6.html
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kaya bale sino ang may kasalanan--ang mga tao o ang polisiya sa pagminina???
"“The people have been warned as early as April last year after the landslide in Barangay Kingking... the MGB declared that area as no-man’s land,” Ramos stressed.
"The NDRRMC chief said immediately after the April 11 landslide in Barangay Kingking, also in Pantukan town, an adjacent to Barangay Napnapan, the government ordered the evacuation of the people living in the area due to the imminent danger of landslide."
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