2 drown in Sorsogon amid rains
LEGAZPI CITY—Two people died in separate drowning incidents on Wednesday and Thursday in Sorsogon amid heavy rains in Bicol, the Office of Civil Defense in Bicol said Friday.
Bernardo Alejandro, Bicol OCD director, identified the victims as Jomar Gordolo, 19, of Barangay Obrero in Bulan town, and Aida Fusana, 61, of Barangay San Francisco in Bulusan town.
Alejandro said Gordolo was swimming with his friend at around 3:10 p.m. Wednesday at Sabang Beach when he suffered muscle cramps and was carried away by strong sea currents and drowned.
The town’s search and rescue team recovered Gordolo’s body and brought it to the Pantaleon Gutladera Memorial Hospital in the town on the same day but was pronounced dead on arrival by attending physicians.
Fusana drowned while trying to cross a flooded spillway in their village at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, said Alejandro.
Rains also triggered a landslide at Barangay G. del Pilar in Bulan on Thursday burying in a mudflow a house owned by a village councilman, Alejandro said.
No casualty was reported, he said.
A low pressure area forecast east of Puerto Princesa City in Palawan brought low to moderate rainfall in Albay and Sorsogon over the past four days, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. Mar Arguelles, Inquirer Southern Luzon
