TAYTAY, Rizal (Eagle News) — Two brothers aged 14 and 17 were buried alive in a deadly landslide in Taytay, Rizal early Tuesday morning after heavy rains brought by tropical depression Maring and typhoon Lannie.
The lifeless bodies of victims, Jude Pondal, 17, and his younger brother Justine Pondal, 14, were still embracing each other when found by rescuers at 7 a.m. Tuesday morning inside their buried house in Bgy. Dolores, Taytay, Rizal,
The landslide that started at dawn affected two houses near a river, located below a rugged cliff.
The victims’ mother and two other siblings were rescued alive.
According to the local government of Taytay, the residents in the area had been advised as early as Monday, September 11 to evacuate as they expected heavy rains to be brought about by the two weather disturbances — Maring and Lannie — that have entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility. (PAR)
But the residents there did not heed the warning.
The country’s weather bureau, PAGASA, had earlier warned that tropical depression Maring would dump heavy rains in Bicol, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Metro Manila, Central Luzon at Pangasinan.
(Based on a report by Tristan Alcantara – Eagle News Correspondent in Rizal)
Photo courtesy: Reynar Sugui (Eagle News Service)