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Disaster officials and workers in Northern and Central Mindanao have been placed on alert after floods and landslides were reported in Bukidnon, leaving four persons wounded and some roads temporarily impassable.

In Cagayan de Oro City, which is part of Northern Mindanao region, a five-year-old girl was reported missing in the wake of flash floods that hit a village over the weekend.

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Region-12 also alerted its field personnel because the Pulangui River emanates from Bukidnon and its water finds its way to the Maguindanao marshland.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), in its report, identified the missing girl as Angel Inzo.

Local disaster risk reduction and management council, in its report to RDRRMC, said the girl was accidentally swept away by heavy water current while passing through a wooden brigade with her mother. The mother survived but her child remained missing.

The flash floods was triggered by continuous heavy downpour over the weekend.

The Coast Guard also helped in the search efforts believing the child may have been carried away into the sea.

In the town of Kitaotao, Bukidnon, at least four persons were wounded in a landslide in Barangay Rawari, Kitaotao on Saturday. Two families were affected by the flash floods.

There was an overnight moderate to heavy downpour which may have weakened the soil and resulted in a landslide.

The wounded farmers, whose identity were not immediately available, were rushed to Kibawi provincial hospital.

Traffic along portions of the Davao-Bukidnon highway was temporarily stopped for four hours until public works office cleared the road from debris.

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