CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 26 December) – Two persons were killed by a landslide while at least 45,000 residents spent Christmas Day in evacuation centers due to flash floods spawned by heavy…
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Two persons were killed by a landslide while at least 45,000 residents spent Christmas Day in evacuation centers due to flash floods spawned by heavy rains in the two Misamis provinces in Northern Mindanao on Sunday.
Hardest hit by the flooding was Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental, where 6,908 families or 34,081 individuals were evacuated by Army and police rescue teams on the eve of Christmas Day, according to a report by the Philippine Army’s 58Mayor Erick Cañosa and the city council declared Gingoog under a state of calamity on Sunday after flash floods affected 19 of its 79 barangays.
The OCD-10 said 505 families were evacuated as flash floods swept the towns of Sinacaban and Jimenez. Misamis Occidental Gov. Henry Oaminal ordered the forced evacuation of residents living beside creeks and rivers, which he described as “already in critical level” Sunday.
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