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Neck-deep floodwaters displace 4,000 Maguindanaoans
« on: November 12, 2012, 08:42:00 PM »
About 4,000 villagers living in low lying barangays of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao were awakened by rampaging flood waters at 1 a.m. Monday when the Simuay River overflowed due to heavy downpour overnight.

The flood waters which reached neck-deep forced the villagers to leave their homes to high grounds until the break of dawn.

As a result of the overflow of Simuay river, portions of the Cotabato-Davao highway were closed beginning 2 a.m. as waist deep water reached the road network.

It was opened to motorists at about 6 a.m.

The military were also deployed along the highway to prevent conflict among motorists who have to be regulated as floodwater would rise quickly.

No one was reported injured in the calamity which the villagers have been living with the past three years.

“We have not experienced heavy rain since Sunday,” Minalindang Aladin, a resident of Barangay Gang which is heavily flooded, told reporters.

“But when heavy downpour occur upstream in the northern part of Maugindanao we brace for floods because we are the catch basin here,” she said. - PNA


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