USING TUKAN, Compostela Valley, Philippines?(UPDATE) four bodies were found on Sunday, bringing to five the official death toll in the good Friday tragedy which posted village here, said a mining area in Panganason in Kingdom officials.
The municipal social welfare office identifies the retrieved corpses as the Brendo Dane, 26; Marjun Guilabtan, 20; Marvin Anglai, 19; and Relieto Tabag, 29.
Two of the victims seen on Sunday authorities was already as Saturday but said that they do not immediately could be extracted due to the thickness of the mud, they covered.
The other victims after the landslide was recovered hours from 2:30 pm, was identified as 15-year-old John Ric Torrejos. His father, Cristituto SR. and brother Cristituto Jr. remains to this day is missing.
Rhona Theresa Siojo said that the Torrejoses among the 17 people officially as missing have been listed.
But survivors and other officials believed that the number of people under buried alive tons of mud in the mining village could be higher than what had been thought of.
Rico class, a survivor of the avalanche of mud good Friday Inquirer from the hospital bed here said Sunday, tunnel went about 60 people to work within some gold as was the disaster.
Class said before he Home drinking gone to sleep after a spree, he saw the large group of people to their tunnel.
Lambert Detros, an other survivors, supports class's story.
?From where I stayed at the camp with my spotlight on the hand, I saw the rush of people come through, and the steep and narrow paths, ? Detros said.
Class said more people arrived in the mining area on Thursday evening and ?apparently they also there. slept ?
Mayor Celso Sarenas conceded that it fresh arrivals in the area of mining in the landslide reports received.
Sarenas had said that many of those who had not registered civil servants of the community.
Governor Arthur UY said, that he not Survivors? account of more fatalities was discounting.
?IT more than (estimates) could. There is a possibility the number was greater than we thought, said ? UY.
Such hours no signs of additional survivors painted, recognized Siojo the possibility that the missing persons under tons of mud were buried and could by now.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesman of the 10th Infantry Division, said their work on search and operation retrieve of had moved, although it hoped that some of those were buried alive by mud.
As of 1: 15 P.m. on Sunday, rescuers and volunteers, armed with shovels and supported by heavy machinery, combed through the hardened mud in the hope of uncovering more facilities.
?We are not stop until we get the body. We are not to lose hope, that there are still people who are alive, said ? Sarenas.
For Joel Lapatis, 26, has not dimmed the hope that his brothers Joenil, 21, and Andy, 28, are alive.
Joel has in the search process despite the bruises and he suffered bruises when the mudslide swept their shanty on good Friday.
?I am still hoping that they are still alive, he said the debris in the review ?.
Jay Salonga, one other Miner, who joined the rescue effort, at some point, call the names of his missing friends.
?Please shows you, ?, he would say in a sing-song manner.
Environment Minister Ramon Paje said that he had ordered the evacuation of some 30 households in Panganason after the discovery that same a 70-meter-wide crack in the face of the mountain, the good Friday?s caused the landslide.
The crack, which was a meter deep, which was discovered by workers Apex Mining?who was asked by the Department of environment and natural resources (Dr), perform risk assessment in the area.
Ford Hipólito, Apex mining risk manager, said that the ground above ?go down anytime. ? could fissure
?IT could fall. Due to the leap, which give ground, exacerbated by movements in the area. On the basis of the jump, will enter into these areas, he said ?.
But for a group of small miners here, the Government could use completely shut down the mining district of small groups the string of events from good Friday.
Omar Ocampo of the Association Panganason Smale scale miners said that the Government could force them from the area because of the landslide and the alleged discovery of the fissure.
There were setting the mining activities in Panganason Uy?s the appointment for a 30-day and other parts of the province, which he said was a prelude to the dislocation of the small miners and the entry of multinational companies.
The Save Pantukan Alliance, a group of small mining associations, said the Government itself against small mining was.
?The Aquino Government already has an anti-small scale Miners? attitude, categorically say that our operations are more difficult to regulate when compared to those of large-scale mining. It was not even that we have long maintained that their role in the development and rehabilitation of small-scale mining, so that we better to the development of national help the Government to do, and change the practices that can affect the environment, ? Rolando Dela Cerna, speak for save Pantukan, said.
The environmental group Panalipdan southern Mindanao said the Government had shut down the door, to small miners, but it maintained ?open arms treatment mining multinational companies (MNCs) and foreign investments. ?
?The Government has completely neglected the SSM industry while it assured by laws and policies of large for large-scale and foreign mining Investments?assurance of the support of the Government, lower tariff rates and tariffs, tax breaks and holidays and low payments for damage to the environment support, ? Francis Morales, Panalipdan Secretary General, said. ?Frinston Lim, Rosa can de Guzman-Maitem, Dennis Santos and Jeffrey Tupas, Inquirer Mindanao
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