Emergency responders continued search on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19, for the couple buried in a landslide in Manuel Quezon, Bukidnon. — PHOTO FROM MANUEL QUEZON MUNICIPAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OFFICE

COTABATO CITY — Rescuers are searching for a couple in a tricycle that fell from a stretch of a highway on a high ground in Manuel Quezon, Bukidnon late on Saturday after a heavy downpour in the area.

Officials of the Manuel Quezon Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and the Bukidnon Provincial Police Office separately told reporters at noon on Sunday, that Ely S. Ubatay and his wife, Thelma B. Ubatay, were in their green tricycle, on their way home to Barangay Kahusayan in nearby Kitaotao town in Bukidnon, when a portion of the highway in the Overview Area in Barangay Palacapao suddenly collapsed.

The soil and rocks from the steep side of the highway fell, along with the tricycle of the Ubatays, into a lowland some 90 meters below.

Rescuers had found the damaged tricycle of the Ubatays partly covered by debris from the high side of the thoroughfare and were still searching for the two of them until Sunday afternoon.

Units of the Police Regional Office-10 and the Bureau of Fire Protection in Bukidnon have teams assisting in the search and rescue operation of the Manuel Quezon local government unit. — John Felix M. Unson