Marcos visits Camarines Sur flood victims

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. visits flood victims in evacuation centers in Bula town and Naga City in Camarines Sur on Saturday, October 26 2024. As of Saturday morning, or five days since torrential rains spawned by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) began flooding the province, most of the villages in Camarines Sur remain submerged in floodwater.| PHOTO: Screengrabbed from Bongbong Marcos’ Facebook live

LEGAZPI CITY — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. visited on Saturday the evacuation centers in Bula town and Naga City in Camarines Sur.

Marcost first visited the flood victims in Barangay Causip in Bula town and initially conducted a situation briefing with Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, Jr., Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla, and local officials led by Camarines Sur Second District Rep. Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. and his sons, Gov. Luigi Villafuerte and Fifth District Rep. Miguel Luis Villafuerte.

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Marcos later went to the city hall of Naga City where he met some of the flood victims and had a situation briefing with the local officials.

As of Saturday morning, or five days since torrential rains spawned by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami) began flooding the province, most of the villages in Camarines Sur remain submerged in floodwater. INQ