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dead due to
typhoon 'Ondoy'?
Three persons were dead in
separate drowning incidents in eastern towns due to flash floods on the onset
of tropical depression "Ondoy" late last week.
In
an interview yesterday, P01 Christopher Aceron of Jagna police station confirmed
that a certain Aldrin Honasa, 35 years old resident of barangay Canjulao, Jagna
town drowned due to flash floods in Jagna town last week.
Police
report said that Honasa, who was drunk teased to his family, that he can swim
in the flash floods along the Canjulao river.
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reports bared that while drunk he waded the river towards his house right across
but did not make it through.
Honasa's
lifeless body was retrieved nearby the town seaport of barangay Looc, police said.
In
Duero, an adjacent town of Jagna, Joseph Rances, 22 years old, single and a resident
of Poblacion, this town also drowned. His lifeless body was recovered somewhere
in barangay Itum, about a kilometer from the river.
Rances
was reportedly drunk when he fell into the river. His house is located beside
the river. | In
a separate interview, Candijay Mayor Sergio Amora, Jr. said he heard report about
a lifeless body found somewhere in the hinterland barangay of Canawa.
Amora,
who was attending to the sports activity hosted by his town, said that the lifeless
body remained unidentified as of this writing and cause of the death remained
clueless.
He
added that some officials of barangay Tugas are looking for a missing person.
But they still cannot confirm if the body found in Canawa is the one they are
looking for.
They were victims by natural calamity (flash floods) along
the river beside the public markets of Jagna and Duero. (RVO)
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