00:00 The search and rescue operation of the authorities in a landslide site in Apayao is still difficult.
00:07 The relief and rescue efforts of the government are still ongoing.
00:11 To our fellow countrymen in the Cordillera region,
00:15 here is the center of the news from Janice Deniz of PTV Cordillera.
00:20 Governor Elias Bulot Jr. ordered the construction of a search and rescue operation
00:29 for six individuals who were found missing in the Lubong Butaw, Kalanasan, Apayao.
00:35 The three-households of the victims were found after a large part of the mountain collapsed.
00:42 According to Apayao PDRRMO, the responders will have a hard time reaching the area.
00:48 We have a plan on how to reach the area.
00:52 The problem is that that area is geographically isolated.
00:57 So what they are thinking is to go there by chopper, the first respondents.
01:03 So the initial team will be deployed through the help of the Philippine Army.
01:06 They will use the Black Hawk chopper.
01:08 In Abra, three people were confirmed dead and one was missing after drowning in the river.
01:15 In Qibungan, Pingget, a retrieval operation is also underway
01:20 for the missing woman who was found by the landslide while cleaning her pig pen.
01:25 Mayor Cesar Molitas confirmed that a part of the victim's body was found near the landslide area.
01:34 In the last report of the Department of Social Welfare and Development,
01:39 almost 190,000 residents in the Cordillera region were affected by the Egay earthquake.
01:48 More than 49,000 families were affected in almost 400 barangays in 54 towns in the region.
01:56 The province of Abra, which has more than 180,000 residents, was the most affected.
02:03 More than 1,400 partially damaged houses and 64 totally damaged houses were also affected.
02:12 The most affected were those in Abra, which reached more than 1,000.
02:16 Relief goods and other assistance from the DSWD are being distributed to the affected families in the region.
02:25 In Baguio City, classes are still suspended in all government offices and workplaces.
02:32 All public parks in the province are also closed.
02:36 That's why some tourists are going around in the streets.
02:44 We tried to go to the PMA school, but it's closed.
02:51 Actually, we had a plan to go around the tourist spots here,
02:58 but if it's closed, we can't do anything.
03:03 The authorities are also postponing the clearing operations in the Pinsalang Iniwan of the Egay earthquake in the province,
03:12 especially those who fell from trees on the streets.
03:17 Jhonis Dennis for the nation.
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