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Pantukan landslide site declared a no-habitation zone

DAVAOCITY (MindaNews/25 April) — The site in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking in Pantukan, Compostela Valley where a landslide occurred Friday has been closed to human occupancy after the local government ordered Sunday the forced relocation within 48 hours of some 30 families living in the area.

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Pantukan Landslide: Retrieved miner

  Rescue workers on Sunday carry the body of one of the miners buried at the landslide at Sitio Panganason-B in Barangay Kingking, Pantukan, Compstela Valley Province. Five were killed while 17 others remain missing after a landslide hit the gold-rush site on

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Pantukan Landslide: Searching

SEARCHING. Miners dig through mud and debris near the opening of a tunnel buried by Friday dawn’s landslide in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan town, Compostela Valley Province.As of 7:30 pm Saturday, April 23, three persons have been confirmed dead, 13 rescued

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Pantukan landslide update: 3 dead, 13 rescued, 19 still missing

LANDSLIDE SITE, Pantukan, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/24 April) – Two more bodies were found but not yet retrieved from the landslide site in Sitio Panganason, Barangay Kingking, bringing the death toll to three as of 5 a.m. Sunday. The official count of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) is 3 dead, 13 rescued and 19 still missing, Major Jake Obligado, chief of the Civil-Military Operations of the 10th Infantry Division, said.

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Pantukan Landslide: Survivor

SURVIVOR. Rico Clase, 29, survived the Good Friday tragedy at the small-scale mining area in Barangay Kingking, Pantukan town in Compostela Valley province. MindaNews photo by GG Bueno

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1 dead, 40 missing, 11 rescued in Pantukan landslide

PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/22 April) – A 15-year old boy was killed, 40 others are still missing while 11 have been rescued in a landslide that struck a small-scale mining area in Barangay Kingking at around 2:30 Friday morning. Data from the Incident Command Post fronting the town hall here showed that initial reports on the landslide reached the Municipal Disaster Risk Reducation and Management Council (MDRRMC) at around 8 a.m.

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3 dead in Davao de Oro due to landslides

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 1 February)—Three people have died in the municipality of Maragusan in Davao de Oro because of a landslide caused by heavy rains brought by the trough of the low pressure area. According to the Maragusan Information

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Bibo, the 34-year Habal-habal driver, keeps his balance on this bike as he drives through a narrow passage when a dump truck was stuck on its way up near Sitio Diat 2, Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan, Compostela Valley on January 6. The dump truck, which was carrying food supplies for the rescue volunteers, could no longer climb due to steep and slippery road. Keith Bacongco

Covering Pantukan, the second time around

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/12 January) – Ruby and I were supposed to finish editing the photos we took on the aftermath of Tropical Storm Sendong Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan cities when I heard on radio that another tragedy occurred

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Pantukan shifts from rescue to retrieval operations

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) – Convinced that chances of survival six days after the tragedy are slim, the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) of Pantukan in Compostela Valley has shifted work from rescue to retrieval operations in

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Concerned miners help in retrieval operations by flushing barrels of water to remove dirt at a landslide that hit Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan in Compostela Valley morning of January 5 killing at least 36 people. MindaNews Photo by Toto Lozano

Landslides ‘normal,’ miners used to it

PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/9 January) – Everything seems to be normal in the gold rush communities near the landslide site in Sitio Diat 1 in Barangay Napnapan as ball mill plants continue to operate and miners continue to haul ores

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IN SEARCH OF HIS DAUGHTER. Bernard Tolentino joins the rescue workers from Apex Mines in search of his fourth daughter, Cho-cho. on January 6, a day after landslide struck Barangay Napnapan in Pantukan, Compostela Valley and killed 27 persons. The bodies of his three other daughters were found on January 5. MindaNews photo by Keith Bacongco

Mine worker loses four daughters to landslide

SITIO DIAT, Napnapan, Pantukan (MindaNews/06 January) – Miner Bernard Tolentino could not just watch rescuers dig through the debris. Using a spade, he dug and dug in search of  the body of eight-year old Cho-cho, the fourth daughter  he lost

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Pantukan: Search and Rescue Continues

Families and volunteers continue to dig through the mud in the hopes of finding survivors almost a week after a landslide hit the small-mining village of Panganason-B, Barangay Kingking in Pantukan town, Compostella Valley province. At least 13 miners died and rescuers are still

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Pantukan: Evacuation

EVACUATION Reynaldo Vasquez, 43, dismantles the roof of his ball mill shop in Sitio Panganason-B, Barangay Kingking, Pantukan, Compostela Valley Province. Local authorities have declared the village as a danger zone in the wake of the deadly landslide that killed

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Miners voluntarily raze down houses in Pantukan

PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/27 Apr) – The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Council (MRRDC) on Wednesday said 60 of 112 houses have been voluntarily demolished by miners while the rest are still being razed down by the demolition team and local residents.

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Residents near landslide site ordered to relocate within 48 hours

PANTUKAN, Compostella Valley (MindaNews/24 April) — At least 30 families living near the landslide site in the small-scale gold mining area in Barangay Kingking have been given 48 hours starting Monday to relocate, as initial assessment shows another landslide could happen anytime, Local Governments Secretary Jessie Robredo told a press conference here Sunday afternoon.

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Quake death toll climbs to 8

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 October) – At least eight people were reported to have died after the two earthquakes that struck off Davao Oriental on Friday, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Center said in an advisory on

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BOYS WILL BE BOYS. Boys find time to play on 28 Jan 2013 amid the destruction caused by Typhoon Pablo in Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Compostela Valley. MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas

New Bataan: To relocate or not?

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Jan) – The Regional Development Council (RDC) 11 discussed Tuesday whether or not to relocate the entire municipality of New Bataan in Compostela Valley (ComVal) considering the devastation brought by typhoon Pablo. In an interview,

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Gold processing

Nonoy Osiba, 46, separates gold dusts from soil and dirt at a “ball mill” plant in Sitio Haguimit, Panganason, Pantukan in Compostela Valley on January 7, 2011. Osiba fears that they will loose their source of income once operations will

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Torred Family

The wife and children of Elmer Torred Sr., grieve over his coffin at the the Sta. Teresa Funeral Homes in Mabini, Compostela Valley Province on Saturday, January 7, 2012. Torred was one of the fatalities in the landslide in gold-rich

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SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Disastrous excuses

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 January) – It has become too tiring, this usual excuse we often hear from public officials whenever a disaster occurs. So repetitive in fact that I’m tempted to think God must have made a single DNA pattern

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Resolution making Davao City mining-free filed

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 December) — On the same day that it effectively gave the green light for the controversial coal-fired power plant project of Aboitiz Power Corp., the city council made the initial step toward declaring Davao as a mining-free

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