By Ruth Palo
December 30, 2022 30
DAVAO CITY: A resident was killed while three others were missing after being buried in a landslide caused by heavy rains the past two days in Barangay Don Salvador Lopez, Mati City in Davao Oriental on Wednesday, December 28.
The Mati City Information Office reported that the landslide happened around 11 a.m. at Purok Sangay, leaving a village road impassable to vehicles.
The landslide isolated seven other districts — Upper Cangusan, Lower Cangusan, Cangusan Proper, Tabon-Tabon, New Camotes, Sta. Cruz and Biasong.
Teams from the local disaster risk reduction and management office, police, military, Bureau of Fire Protection, and City Social Welfare Development Office are in the area to conduct search and rescue operations.
The victim was identified as Cristituto Magmusa Paglanson, 62.
