By Ruth Palo
June 23, 2023
DAVAO CITY: The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Davao Region has recorded a total of 113 families displaced by flash floods in Davao del Sur caused by the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) affecting the region.
OCD 11 Information Officer Franz Irag, in a media briefing on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, said Kiblawan, Sulop and Sta.Cruz towns and Digos City experienced flooding.
He added that three houses in Digos City were damaged and 10 others were destroyed.
Irag said affected residents had been evacuated to safer places of the three municipalities.
Some of them have been allowed to go back to their homes after floodwaters started to subside, he added.
OCD 11 is yet to release information on infrastructure and agricultural damage.
Irag said they already issued a memorandum order to all local disaster risk reduction and management centers to closely monitor their respective areas of responsibilities and to preposition their response assets.
He also said all affected families were provided immediate assistance such as food packs, tents and blankets.
