63-year-old woman killed in Ifugao landslide laid to rest

Ifugao. INQUIRER FILES

SANTIAGO CITY — A 63-year-old woman who was buried in a rockslide and mudflow in the village of Bocos in the town of Banaue, Ifugao province, last June 27 was interred at the town’s public cemetery on Friday, July 4, police said.

Major Harrison Humiwat, Banaue police chief, said in a statement Saturday that the body of Agnes Dominong, 63, of Sitio Ibayong of Barangay Bocos, was recovered from the landslide site on June 28.

According to Humiwat, Dominong went to her rice field in Sitio Char-o of Barangay Poitan at around 5:30 p.m. on June 27 but failed to return home that night. Her relatives who went out on a search the next day found her pair of boots in the area in Barangay Bocos that was hit by a landslide. Rescuers recovered her body under the debris by the afternoon of June 28.

The landslide in Bocos was just one of seven successive landslides from June 27 to July 3 that accured in Banaue town amid the rainy season, according to authorities.

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The other events included the landslide and rockfall in Sitio Pugo, Barangay Amganad, which hampered travel in the area on July 1; and in the villages of Uhaj, Cambulo, Kinakin, Ducligan, Duntog and Amganad. These areas had been cleared and were passable as of Saturday. /das