GENERAL SANTOS City, Philippines—Three persons were reported killed while 100 residents were displaced when a landslide hit the remote Purok 10 in the village of Kinayao in Bagumbayan town, Sultan Kudarat, late Friday.
Bagumbayan Mayor Bernardita Bito-onon, in a radio interview, identified the victims as Teresita Albanses, 49; her nine-year old daughter Daisy; and a certain Kristin Olivar, 3.
The three fatalities were buried deep by the landslide.
Bito-onon claimed she had already dispatched the social workers to the affected area to distribute rice and other food assistance to other residents displaced in the disaster.
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