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Volume IX, No. 175
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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Magnitude 6.9 quake death toll in DavSur rises to 6 DAVAO DEL SUR - The death toll from Sunday’s magnitude 6.9 strong quake that hit Davao del Sur and its neighboring provinces has now reached to 6 with over twenty people injured and millions of damage to properties, government authorities reported. More dead bodies were retrieved by government and private rescuers as retrieval operations continued today in collapsed private buildings and government infrastructures. The tremblor that hit Southern Philippines Sunday at around 2:11pm has badly cracked many schools, a townhall, a store and a lot more private and government buildings, homes and roads. Fortunately, it reportedly spared cities that were badly hit in a string of quakes back in October, this year. In a joint press confer-
ence with Mayor Pedro Casimero Jr and fire bureau officials, it was reported that searchers and rescuers have pulled bodies of two women, ages 57 and 73 at a building that collapsed in Padada town, Davao del Sur. Rescuers also saw a dead body still trapped under the debris of said market building. It was a female corpse which was later identified as a certain Emily Gallogos by her immediate families. She was finally retrieved at 10:00 in the evening of December 16. The co-workers of Gallogos said that before she died she was able to text one of them and informed them she was traped inside a debris of hollow blocks and hard objects. Rescuers at the collapsed market building continued to look for a person who See DEATH, page 19
BEST IN CSR. SM City Cagayan de Oro manager Bernadeth Flores receives the award as Best in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Dante Sudaria, president/CEO of BusinessWeek Mindanao Corporation/Mindanao Daily News, during the 8th Mindanao Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards held Friday at Luxe Hotel, Limketkai, Cagayan de Oro City. Also in photo is Ms. Ivy Guantero, public relation manager of SM Downtown Premiere and CDA Undersecretary and MDN columnist, Mr. Orlando Ravanera.
On government’s pronouncement not to pursue military camp construction on the announcement of Defense Secretary Delfin ILIGAN CITY -- Officials Lorenzana that the governand residents in Marawi ment will not pursue its City has expressed relief plan of constructing a new By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
military camp in Barangay Kapantaran in Marawi City, if residents are against it. In an interview over Radyo Pilipinas, Lorenzana
said the government is open to the calls of the residents not to pursue the plan. “Pakinggan ko muna. See CAMP, page 5
Buses and other vehicles are having a hard time passing thru a mountainous road Sunday due to landslides.