Authorities in Zamboanga del Norte province are still searching for a Sindangan town resident who went missing after a landslide on Jan. 12 amid heavy rains spawned by a low-pressure area. /PDI
Citing the accounts of relatives, Capt. Roy Malayo, Sibuco police chief, said Siarot’s family crossed a river to evacuate when the strong current of the flood water carried him off.Up to 14,866 families or 65,229 individuals were affected by the disaster, which hit hardest in Sirawai town, where all its 34 villages were under water, displacing 6,603 families or 44 percent of the total affected families in the province.
As of Friday, reports from local disaster response offices counted 113 houses destroyed and another 504 damaged. Four bridges in Sibuco were also damaged. Many concrete roads in Sirawai and Sibuco towns were either washed away by raging flood waters or damaged by landslides. Sirawai and Sibuco towns had been placed in a state of calamity by their respective local governments.
Sibuco Mayor Joel Ventura said the devastation of the town’s infrastructure “will make economic recovery much tougher.”“The recent flooding in our special municipality has damaged roads, bridges, houses, and agricultural lands. It would require millions of pesos to restore damaged infrastructure and other facilities. All this will be an enormous burden on our economy,” Ventura said in a statement.
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