Floods, lightning kill 4 teenagers in Cebu

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MANILA, Philippines—Flashfloods and a lightning strike killed four teenagers in Cebu province after rains battered the province on Monday, a civil defense official said Tuesday.

Joy Hernandez, staff duty officer at the Office of Civil Defense 7 (Central Visayas), said three of the victims died when crossing a swollen river in Argao town.

Caroline Marson, 15, Richel Ann Paraje, 15, and Earv Kyle Sardido, 13, were at the spillway in Barangay Calagasan on their way home from Calagasan National High School at 3:20 p.m. when strong river currents swept them away.

Hernandez said that the body of Paraje, a resident of Barangay Linut-od, was found at around 5 p.m. when the waters subsided while Marson and Sardido, from Cabantug and Linut-od, were found dead 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the waters between Argao and Bohol City.

Another teenager, 16-year-old William Cabijan, died when a lightning struck him in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City.

Cabijan’s relatives brought him to Vicente Sotto Memorial Centers but doctors declared him dead on arrival.

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