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Volume IX, No. 155
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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Oro Chamber exec worried about quakes’ economic repercussions By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
NORTHERN Mindanao’s largest business lobbying group - the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation - has sounded alarm bells that the successive quakes that hit Mindanao in the past few months may cause economic repercussions. Along this line, Oro Chamber president Irene Floro issued a letter November 15 strongly urging its more than 400 members to check the premises of their individual establishments on their own for structural See WORRIED, page 15
Call center workers of the Business Processing Office (BPO) with offices located in a downtown shopping mall in Cagayan De Oro City milled around the main entrance of the mall Thursday morning after a stronger but shorter earthquake believed to be one of the hundred aftershocks after the Magnitude 6.6 quake hits Tulunan, North Cotabato Tuesday. File photo by Cris Diaz of Mindanao Daily News
Two NPA assassins Four injured; 87 houses damaged in arrested in Bukidnon magnitude 5.9 tremor that hit B’non By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
VALENCIA City--Two suspected assassins of the outlawed communist New People’s Army (NPA) were nabbed after a shootout with pursuing law enforcers here, the police said. Lt. Col. Surke A. Sereñas, said identified the suspects as Frederic M. Tagurda, a.k.a “Ric Ric,” 27, farm laborer,
of Lilo-an, Lumbayao, Valencia City and Pedeng M Matrikinong, a.k.a “Agay,” and “Santo,” 26, married, of Balakayo, Namnam, San Fernando, Bukidnon. Sereñas said that the suspects, both alleged members of the dreaded “Sparrow Unit,” the assassination arm of the NPA, were reportedly responsible for extortion See ARRESTED, page 15
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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - THE latest magnitude 5.9 quake that hit Kadingilan town in Bukidnon Province has no reported deaths except for four persons who were injured, the Local Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (LDRRMO) of Kadingilan
town reported yesterday. The LDRRMO said those who were reported injured suffered trauma due to severe anxiety, an injury in the head and the loss of consciousness. According to Director Marcial Labininay of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and See TREMOR, page 15
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8 hurt, dozens affected in Bukidnon earthquake residential houses were damaged when a magniILIGAN City--Four injured, tude 5.9 earthquake struck 100 families affected while Kadingilan town, Bukidnon dozens of buildings and on Monday night. By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (MDRRM) Officer Shane Therese Romo said more than 20 houses were
damaged. Four were reported injured: one with injuries in the head, one lost his consciousness and two ex-
perienced trauma due to severe anxiety. All of them were brought to the nearest hospitals, said Romo. As of 8:31 a.m. on No-
vember 19, she said 56 families were affected in Barangay Sibonga, 14 in Salvacion, seven in Husayan, See HURT, page 15