Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:48:11 +0000
Five men were killed on Wednesday while helping put out a fire that razed a 60-hectare forest area in Benguet province.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:25:58 +0000
Fire destroyed a large forest area at the boundary of Itogon and Tuba in Benguet on Wednesday, killing at least five people.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 21:10:40 +0000
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has allowed a 1-hectare “Minahang Bayan” (people’s mine) exclusively for pocket miners at a site in Itogon town, Benguet province
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Philippine rescuers used shovels and bare hands to claw through mounds of rocky soil on Monday in a desperate search for dozens feared buried under a landslide unleashed by Typhoon Mangkhut.
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President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday blamed the uncontrolled mining operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) for the landslides that struck Itogon, Benguet during the onslaught of super Typhoon “Ompong” over the weekend.
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