Gingoog Mayor Erick Cañosa and the city council declare the eastern Misamis Oriental city under a state of calamity on Christmas Day.
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Thousands spent Christmas Day in evacuation centers in the two Misamis provinces as continuous rain dampened the annual holiday celebration, spawning flooding and landslides across the two Northern Mindanao provinces.
The situation was so bad that Gingoog Mayor Erick Cañosa and the city council declared the eastern Misamis Oriental city under a state of calamity on Christmas Day to allow the local government to tap its reserved funds to provide relief aid to evacuees from 19 of the city’s 79 barangays. Lieutenant Colonel Christian Uy, the commander of the Army’s 58th Infantry Battalion, said the Department of Public Works and Highways closed the Gingoog-Claveria-Villanueva road early Sunday due several landslides and fallen trees.In Misamis Occidental, a man and his daughter – Mario Sambiog and Elenita Sambiog – died after a landslide hit the hinterland village of Mialen, Oroquieta City, said Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Abellanosa, the commander of the police’s 1st Provincial Mobile Force.
The Philippine Information Agency , however, reported on Sunday afternoon that about 802 families, or some 3,599 people evacuated in Jimenez town alone.
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