SUBIC: Areas hit by landslides triggered by the southwest monsoon in this town have been declared permanent danger zones.
Subic Mayor Jefferson Khonghun said residents of barangays Wawandue and San Isidro would not be allowed to return to their homes. “We already relocated the residents living in those areas and we would no longer allow them to go back there,” he said.
Khonghun noted that the areas where the landslides occurred are not on the geohazard maps provided by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau.
“This is the first in the history of Subic that the landslides occurred in those areas,” he said. Khonghun also stressed the need to dredge the Santo Tomas River. He appealed to the national government for more relief assistance to affected residents.
At least 128 families or 592 individuals are staying at evacuation centres – 78 families at Calapacuan Elementary School and 50 families at Wawandue sports complex. The Philippine star
