Search and rescue operations in two Baybay City villages stopped due to geological and health hazards (Sabong News)
Author
Marie Tonette Marticio
Date
APRIL 20 2022
BAYBAY CITY – The Office of the Civil Defense Region 8 has ordered the search, rescue and retrieval operation stopped in two barangays here on Tuesday due to geological and health hazards.
OCD-8 Regional Director Lord Byron Torrecarion said the search and rescue operations in Barangays Bunga and Mailhi will no longer continue, with chances of finding any survivors and remains in the rubble of landslides already slim.
However, the SRR operations will continue in Brgy Brgy. Kantagnos, also in this city.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said that landslides are still possible in those areas in Bunga and Mailhi, as well as Brgy Pilar in Abuyog, Leyte.
A total of 60 individuals from Kantagnos, one each from Pangasugan and Bunga, and 4 from Brgy. Mailhi are still missing.
Meanwhile, the city government of Baybay has enforced forced evacuation of six families in Sitio Pamotosan, Barangay Makinhas based on the recommendation of the MGB.
According to MGB, there is an impending threat of landslides in the said area owing to the cracks seen in the mountains.
A total of 551 families or 1,849 individuals remain in 12 evacuation centers coming from eight villages where multiple landslides occurred.
