A Benguet Story: Little Kibungan Landslide

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On October 8, 2009, while residents slept at 10:30pm a huge landslide swept away about 30 houses and killed more than a hundred people. Typhoon Pepeng is said to have triggered the landslide that cause the mountain to give way. La trinidad, Philippines, 15/10/2009.

On October 8, 2009 at 10:30 at night, while residents slept in Little Kibungan in Puguis, La Trinidad, in Benguet province, 250 kilometers north of Manila, a huge landslide swept away 30 houses and killed more than a hundred people. On the day I was there, there were four more bodies that hadnt been found. The Kindipan family was waiting for their last kin to be found so they could bury the dead--Mother Bibiana and her children Mark Denver, Michelle, and Antonette. The father was away at work at that time.

Contributor: kat_palasi
Tags: Environment, Natural Disaster, landslide, Puguis, Philippines Cordillera, landslide, rescue, search, southeast asia, slide, La Trinidad, Kankanaeys, dead, colour image, Benguet, death, disaster, Ibaloys, grief, 2009, soil, mountain, indigenous communtiies, environment, ecology
Location :ASIA, Philippines, La trinidad
Date: 15 October 2009 - 4:00pm

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