LEGAZPI CITY—Three of four girls trying to cross a flooded road in a town in Camarines Sur province drowned on Thursday (Nov. 12), police said on Friday (Nov. 13).
Police in the town of Milaor said the girls—Joan Cabalquinto, 16; Nene Cabalquinto, 14; Kaya Cabalquinto and Quenny Ann Baer, 12–were holding hands while walking on a flooded road at the village of Del Rosario in the town center.
Three of the girls drowned—Joan, Nene and Quenny—and only one, Kaya, survived and is now in the Bicol Medical Center in Naga City.
In a press statement, the town police said one of the girls stumbled and fell into a deep part of the flood, causing three of the girls to drown.
Typhoon Ulysses (international name Vamco), which crossed Milaor as a tropical cyclone at 4 a.m. on Thursday, brought heavy to intense rainfall to the two Camarines provinces and caused flooding in at least 33 towns and two cities.
As of late Friday afternoon, the three girls had not been listed as fatalities caused by Ulysses.
The Office of Civil Defense in Bicol had listed five fatalities—two in Labo town, one in Daet, and one in Talisay, all in the province of Camarines Norte, and one in Goa town in Camarines Sur.