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By Aaron Recuenco
Authorities have received casualty reports from typhoon 'Rosita' as rescue teams started to reach the landslide sites, especially in Mt. Province where more than 30 people were buried alive. The death toll has reached 17 in four regions of Luzon.
In this image provided by the Department of Public Works and Highways, Mountain Province District Engineering Office, rescuers dig through the earth to search for survivors after a massive landslide in Natonin, Mountain Province, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. (DPWH MPDSEO via AP / MANILA BULLETIN)
Chief Supt. Benigno Durana, spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said at least 23 people are still missing in the city.
Benito Longan, Junjun Laron, and Joel Arevalo have identified Benito Longan as one of those buildings. Five other people have been recovered and are yet to be identified.
Durana said that of the 17 people reported dead typhoon 'Rosita', 13 of them are in Cordillera Administrative Region which includes landslide and drowning casualties in Mt. Province, Ifugao and Benguet; two from Batangas who died when they were operating on a landslide; one from Central Luzon and one from Cagaya Valley region.
The latest fatality report was backhoe operator Junie Ducyao who died when tones of mud and rocks buried in a Banaue, Ifugao.
He said 24 other people are still missing, 23 of them are from Cagayan Valley Region, which is being away by flashflood.
A total of 11 people have been reported injured, some of the survivors of the Natonin landslide.
More than 10,000 people are still staying in various evacuation centers in northern Luzon, some of them lost their lives to the threat of landslide, according to Durana.
More than 5,000 evacuation centers are now being secured by the PNP, most of them in Ilocos Region and Cordillera Administrative regions.
"We have more than 250 staff in evacuation centers to ensure the security of the evacuees and at the same time," said local Durana officials.
The officials said more than 700 police were also deployed to the search and rescue missions, especially in areas affected by landslides.
Authorities have been favoring for zero casualties following the devastation left by typhoon 'Ompong.
Various preemptive evacuations were done by local officials, especially in the towns and provinces on the path of 'Rosita'.
The Ground Zero during 'Ompong' devastation was a mining site in Itogon town of Benguet where more than 60 miners were buried alive. The buried DPWH buildings in Natonin town is now considered as Ground Zero.
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