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HEROES. AFP Chief Gen. Andres Centino welcomes troops of the 82-member Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) who arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 on Tuesday night (Feb. 28, 2023). The team was deployed to Trkiye on Feb. 8 to conduct humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations in the aftermath of the Feb. 6 magnitude 7.8 quake that rocked the country. (Photo courtesy of AFP) MANILA - Ranking officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and other government agencies welcomed the 82 members of the Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) who safely returned home Tuesday night after their mission to earthquake-ravaged Trkiye. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chair and Department of National Defense officer in charge Undersecretary Carlito Galvez Jr., Office of Civil Defense (OCD) administrator Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno, AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Andres Centino, and Turkish Ambassa
A roll-on roll-off vessel carrying 12 rolling cargo ran aground in the shallow waters of Bohol on Tuesday, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Wednesday, even as the command said it has tapped several groups to stop an oil spill from a tanker that earlier sank in Oriental Mindoro in…
(Photo courtesy of Maj. Erwen Diploma) MANILA - The 82-member Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) in Trkiye will be arriving around 10 p.m. Tuesday. "The PIAHC will be arriving on 28 February 2023, at around 10 p.m., at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3," the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said in an advisory. Before its departure from the quake-battered nation, the Philippine Emergency Medical Assistance Team (PEMAT), which is attached to the PIAHC aided 1,022 patients in Trkiye's southeastern city of Adiyaman from Feb. 11 to 24. The PIAHC left the Philippines for Istanbul on Feb. 8 and arrived there the next day. Meanwhile, PIAHC's urban search and rescue (USAR) team retrieved six bodies and assessed 36 buildings from Feb. 10 to 15. The OCD earlier said Ankara will no longer accept a second contingent from Manila to help in operations in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked the country last February as the chan