Rescuers in Davao Occidental have found three bodies in the aftermath of a flash flood that swept four houses into the sea on July 10. The flood was caused by a southwest monsoon enhanced by typhoon Inday. Six residents are still missing, and operations continue to find the rest of the missing people.
JOSE ABAD SANTOS, Davao Occidental — Rescuers found three bodies in the aftermath of a flash flood in Barangay Tanuman Big that swept four houses into the sea on July 10.
But six more residents are missing. The flood was caused by what emergency responders called a southwest monsoon enhanced by typhoon Inday. Rescuers found the bodies of Baby Jane Abon Cabca, 46; Ruby Jane Abon Cabca, 9; and Leonard Jeo Pallano Benamira, 2. Ruby Jane was found shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday, while Baby Jane and Leonard were found Sunday afternoon.
Danny Pallano Diantan, 55, survived. Jason Suico, Jose Abad Santos MDRRMO operations and warning section chief, told MindaNews that operations continue to find the rest of the six missing. Jason Suico, chief of operations and warning section of the Jose Abad Santos Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, points to the map areas affected by the July 10 flash flood at the Incident Command Center in Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental on 12 July 2026.
MindaNews photo by GREGORIO BUENO As of 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, various responders were still looking for Cyrich Sangkala Abon, 4; Amelia Pallano Diantan, 75; Victor Pallano Diantan, 78; Rossana Galas Masaglang, 50; Jemboy Pacay Taluno, 45 and Roniel Abon Taluno, 13; Suico and the rest of his small disaster response team were manning the Incident Command Center at the JAS Municipal Hall. Suico said floodwaters brought debris in the Tanuman Bridge, with the flood spilling over nearby residences, the homes of the Talunos, Abons, Diantans, and Masaglang families.
Patulang is around four to five kilometers north of the Tanuman Bridge area. A partial report from the MDRRMO said at least five barangays were affected by the habagat rains, barangays Sugal, Butuan, Kalbay, Malalan, and Tanuman. Barangay Kalbay has the most affected families, with 124 affected households under the initial report. In Sitio Kibalang, Barangay Sugal, the rains affected 38 families and totally damaged one house.
The following day, 16 additional homes in the barangay were reported totally damaged. Three homes were totally damaged in Sitios Kidadangon and Linagaan, Barangay Butuan, during the July 10 rains, and another house was destroyed on July 11. Suico said the rains hit early Thursday morning in Barangay Sugal at 6 a.m. on Friday and it rained hard in Barangay Tanuman in the evening.
“The rain in Sugal was probably due to a damming upstream,” Suico said, referring to a dam that was created from the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake last June 8. In June, a damming incident in Barangay San Isidro, Jose Abad Santos endangered at least four sitios in downstream Barangay Nuing.
When the dam broke through rescuer efforts, the water returned to its natural course and flooded portions of the sitios, whose residents had been evacuated by the local government in the aftermath of the June 8 quake.
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