Cordillera erosions leave 1 dead, 6 hurt

BAGUIO CITY–A series of erosions on Thursday (June 9) led to the death of a man in Ifugao, injured a miner in Benguet and hurt five construction workers in the city, the Cordillera police said.

Nueva Vizcaya resident Nestor Rivera Dumincel, 60, was killed by a 3 p.m. landslide at the Bokiawan Elementary School in Hungduan, Ifugao.

Domicel was with a crew of workers who were fortifying the foundation of a wall when he was buried by rocks.

Earlier at 9:30 a.m., a rockslide buried 57-year-old Nestor Abella in a small scale mining tunnel at Sitio Sapuan, Ambassador village in Benguet’s Tublay town. Abella was rescued at 11:00 a.m. and treated at the Pines City Doctor’s Hospital in Baguio.

At 10:45 a.m., members of a work crew of the firm Acerprime Builders was buried at a construction site in Baguio’s Quisumbing St. when an excavated area collapsed, pulling down soil and debris.

Jimmy Yumul Fernandez, Bobby Ulac, Avelino Boac, Daniel Estoler, and Jerome Ulac were extricated by their co-workers and are being treated in two  hospitals. CDG/rga

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