PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/07 January) – The exact number of persons who were possibly buried in the landslide in Barangay Napnapan early morning on Thursday has remained unknown, as residents and officials have given conflicting figures and accounts surrounding the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 April) – Two more bodies were retrieved from the landslide site in Pantukan, Compostela Valley on Saturday, eight days after the tragedy, bringing to 14 the number of bodies recovered, 13 of them identified, the Municipal Disaster
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/27 April) – Relatives and rescuers recovered on Tuesday five more bodies at the landslide site in Barangay Kingking here even if the local government has ordered a temporary suspension of the rescue and retrieval operations due
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.
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
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/24 April) – The death toll in Friday’s landslide rose to five as four bodies were retrieved from the landslide site Sunday. The number of missing has dropped to 17 as all four were among the 21
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
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.
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/23 April) – Rico Clase was awakened by a “kusog nga buto” (loud explosion) shortly before 3 a.m. on Good Friday but before he could get up to find out what it was, the bunkhouse made of
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
(UPDATE as of 6pm) PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley – Nineteen of the 40 persons earlier reported missing in Friday morning’s landslide in Barangay Kingking have been accounted for as of 6pm, leaving only 21 missing. A total of nine persons have
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.
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/05 January) — Landslide struck a gold rush site here at 3 a.m. Thursday, killing at least 18 persons, including a six-year old girl. But 16 others were rescued, nine of them rushed to the regional hospital
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/05 January) – At least 16 persons were killed and a still undetermined number were reported missing when a landslide struck a gold rush site in Pantukan, Compostela Valley at 3 a. m. today (Thursday). Col. Camilo Ligayo,
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
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 January) – We were prepared to ride the habal-habal once again on Saturday. This time, Toto Lozano will go with me and Ruby will shoot for mining-related issues in Pantukan. Bibo was already waiting for us near
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
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
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
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/08 January) – Mayor Celso Sarenas defended his decision allowing people from other places to work in the gold rush sites, saying they were in dire need of money to feed their families. Sarenas issued the statement
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
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/03 May) — In some towns of Mindanao, the sight of motorcycles is a sure sign that some of its remote areas are barely inaccessible by four-wheeled vehicles. Although there are villages that can be reached using
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
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
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.
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.
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
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 04 February) — Disaster-resiliency should start from home and residents, particularly those living in landslide and flood-prone areas, must create their own “family disaster plans” to guide them, the director of the Office of the Civil
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 19 January) – Floods brought by heavy rains due to a shear line have uprooted a total of 83,158 families or 349,183 individuals in Davao Region, according to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) regional office.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 January) – At least 39 localities in the Davao region, including this city, suspended classes in public and private schools as of 7:55 a.m. Tuesday due to heavy rains since Monday night, which triggered flooding
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) — Compostela Valley province on Monday ordered a temporary stoppage of all mining operations and ordered a forced evacuation in several danger zones as Tropical Depression “Chedeng” moved closer to Davao region. Gov. Jayvee Tyron Uy,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/18 March) — Classes in all levels have been suspended in the entire province of Davao del Norte and most towns in Compostela Valley effective Monday afternoon as local government braced for Tropical Depression “Chedeng” which was expected
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,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 Sept) – To make sure that the buildings yet to be constructed by the Department of Education (DepEd) and those by private schools are in a safe location, the regional office of the Department of Education in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 March) – Journalists from all over Mindanao will attend a 3-day training here on environment reporting organized by the Mindanao Media Forum. Scheduled on March 10-12, the training aims to increase the capacity of journalists to produce
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/07 February) – A group of miners operating near this city’s critical Parang-parang watershed assured they were neither cutting trees nor using chemicals that harm the environment, but some residents were not convinced. Local officials who led an
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — On our second day of coverage of the landslide in Pantukan, Compostela Valley, we decided to take the Tibagon route because it was still 9:30a. m. Besides, the weather looked fine that Friday, January 6,
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/11 January)—Surveillance cameras have been installed in the gold-rich town of T’boli in South Cotabato in an intensified crackdown against all forms of illegal activities that threaten the environment in the area, an official said on Wednesday. Siegfred
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
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
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
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/06 January) – Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo has ordered the closure of tunnels in high-risk areas and the demolition of houses in “no habitation” zones in the gold rush sites. Robredo also said President Benigno Simeon
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
