BAGUIO CITY — Members of the Benguet Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) want the province to be placed under a state of calamity after it was ravaged by Super Typhoon Doksuri (locally named Egay) last week.
This will allow the province to freeze the prices of basic goods and ease the burden on residents affected by the typhoon. This will also allow the local government to fast-track the rehabilitation process.
Nearby Abra and Apayao provinces have been placed under a state of calamity.
At least 5 people were still being retrieved from a landslide at the foot of a mountain in Calanasan town in Apayao, where six families in three houses were buried in mud on Thursday. — Artemio A. Dumlao
