Northern Mindanao records another fatality due to typhoon ‘Odette’
This aerial photo taken on December 17, 2021 shows destroyed houses caused by Super Typhoon Rai after the storm crossed over Surigao City in Surigao del Norte province. (Photo by Erwin MASCARINAS / AFP)
ILIGAN CITY—Another fatality due to the onslaught of Typhoon “Odette” was reported in Northern Mindanao, bringing to two the total casualties in the region on Saturday.
Local broadcast station Magnum Radyo in Cagayan de Oro City reported that Gaudiosa Estrada, 75, was found dead on the downstream of a creek in El Salvador City, Misamis Oriental on Friday morning.
Estrada’s grandniece Grace Ann said that they came from the local market on the morning of Thursday when they were unable to cross the creek through a spillway by noon because it had swelled.
At around 8 p.m., both of them already hungry, Estrada decided that they should just push their luck and cross the creek.
However, she slipped out of Grace Ann’s hold while they were in the middle of the flooded spillway and was swept by the rampaging waters.
The other casualty in Northern Mindanao was a man struck by a fallen tree in San Fernando town, Bukidnon on Thursday.
