DAVAO CITY – At least 341 persons were evacuated to safer grounds after strong monsoon waves battered eight coastal barangays in Davao City, which destroyed 89 houses and left 104 others partially damaged, a data released by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) on Sunday morning.
– At least 341 persons were evacuated to safer grounds after strong monsoon waves battered eight coastal barangays in Davao City, which destroyed 89 houses and left 104 others partially damaged, a data released by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office on Sunday morning.
He said many of affected residents moved out from their houses on Saturday evening while the others evacuated in the morning of the following day as huge waves came crashing on the shores at high tide.Affected houses were mostly shanties built along the coasts, he said. Many of them were owned by illegal settlers whose houses were built on stilts the water, according to him.
The displaced residents were provided with hot meals from the City Social Services and Development Office, according to him. “Since last month, we had a meeting with the residents of the coastal barangays to warn them of the impending monsoon waves. We had also asked the barangays to determine the probable areas where they can stay if this would come,” he said.
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