Not another tragedy!

This was the first reaction I had at the very moment I learnt of the news. Last Friday, Guinsaugon, a village in the town of St. Bernard, Southern Leyte was said to be literally erased from the face of the earth (like the demolition of the “shabu flea market” in Pasig?).

Estimates of about 1,500 people were buried by an enormous landslide which is said to be caused by continuous rainfall.

This is another horrendous landslide-caused (read as wanton denudation of the forest due to logging activities) tragedy that has besieged Leyte for at least the 3rd time in the last two decades. Remember Ormoc in 1991, where at least 6,000 people were buried alive? Or flashback just three years ago, when the town of San Francisco, was also perished by a landslide killing 133 people? 

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