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A DAVAO City-based environment group is calling for a just and biased-free investigation of the massive landslide incident that occurred in Barangay Masara, Davao de Oro, on the evening of February 6, 2024.
Landslide-hit Davao site listed as ‘high risk’ since 2008 Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
As early as 2008, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau recommended that the landslide area in Masara in Davao de Oro be declared as a no-build-zone because of the threat of disaster
'We saw many dogs and cats. They were agitated, scared, and very hungry when rescuers found them in the rubble,' says Dr. Headyn Cenabre, assistant head of the provincial veterinary office of Davao de Oro