Only one of the six youths survived when the makeshift hut that sheltered them from the rain got hit by lightning on Easter Sunday afternoon, an officer of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) said.
Memorial marker of the 38 victims of the 1989 Rano massacre in Digos City, Davao del Sur (PNA photo by Che Palicte) MANILA - The government has brought insurgency to near annihilation more than three decades after the Rano massacre in Digos, Davao del Sur where 38 members of an indigenous peoples (IP) community were massacred by communist rebels. The Rano massacre was the most brutal, inhumane, and barbaric act committed by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), according to Presidential Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy. "We will not forget the sanctity of our job as a public servant and how, when we hold a public office, what we really hold in our hands are the [safety of the] Filipino people and their children," Badoy, also the spokesperson of the NTF-ELCAC Social Media Affairs and Sectoral Concerns, said in a statement on Saturday. On June 25, 1989, the 38 members of the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe who ga