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Crying voices heard beneath pile of logs in Iligan coastal village
By Keith Bacongco | Thursday| December 29, 2011 | Filed under: Top
Stories
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – True or not, but some residents in
the coastal barangay of Santiago here claim that almost every night,
they are hearing voices crying for help coming from the pile of logs
swept from the mountains during the flashflood dawn of December 17.
Fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, one of the flood surviors in coastal Barangay
Santiago in Iligan City, is among residents who claim they heard cries
for hel pat night, which they believe are from people who died in the
flood and buried under the pile of logs swept to the shore from the
mountains. MindaNews Photo by Ruby Thursday More
Fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, one of the flood surviors in coastal Barangay
Santiago in Iligan City, is among residents who claim they heard cries
for hel pat night, which they believe are from people who died in the
flood and buried under the pile of logs swept to the shore from the
mountains. MindaNews Photo by Ruby Thursday More
One of them is fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, in his 50s, who said that
there are certain spots in the pile of logs where the voices come
from. He has been hearing voices of children, as well as the elderly,
crying for help three days after that fateful day.
“On the third day after the flood, I heard cries for help. The voices
you hear, you can really feel those people calling for help are in
great difficulty,” he said in the vernacular as he coils his nylon
string used in catching fish, himself standing on top of the logs,
maybe one of which destroyed his house.
A decaying 20-foot log with a diameter of about three feet floating in
the rampaging flood waters swept his house, made only of some light
wood, plywood and bamboo. Lucky for them, his family was already
leaving their house when the log hit it.
“With the log’s size, my house vanished in an instant. More logs came
shortly after that not even a post got left behind,” he said.
Jambre recounted that the flood waters, carrying logs, came from
different directions leading to the sea.
Boys play on top of the logs and other debris in Barangay Santiago,
Iligan City on Tuesday, December 27. The logs were brought down from
the mountains by tropical storm Sendong. MindaNews photo by Ruby
Thursday More
Boys play on top of the logs and other debris in Barangay Santiago,
Iligan City on Tuesday, December 27. The logs were brought down from
the mountains by tropical storm Sendong. MindaNews photo by Ruby
Thursday More
Julius Nadayag, 34, and his family were swept into the open sea by the
strong flood current. They clung on to logs and other floating debris,
wood from houses among them. Luckily, they were not carried too far
from the shore.
“I’m sure there are still bodies trapped beneath the logs. We can
still smell the decaying corpses. They must be the ones crying here at
night,” he believes.
He recalled that it was high tide and the waves were strong when the
flood came to Barangay Santiago.
The logs, Nadayag said, came from the nearby Mandulog River and
slammed into houses.
“The morning after, a lot of bodies, apparently those hit by the logs,
were recovered in the neighborhood. The number could have easily risen
to over 100,” he said.
But one of his neighbors with his two-year-old son did survive despite
being trapped in the pile of logs. Nadayag and the other neighbors
happened to chance upon the father-and-son tandem, then helped them
out.
Some of the residents of Barangay Santiago have sought shelter in the
evacuation camps while some built their makeshift shelters. Those who
opted to stay in the area sometimes group together and sleep in their
neighbors’ shelters because they are disturbed by the crying voices at
night, Nadayag admitted.
Jambre is worried it may take some time for authorities to totally
cleanse the shore of decaying bodies.
As of this writing, 481 deaths were already recorded in this city and
891 more in neighboring Cagayan de Oro City. (Keith Bacongco/
MindaNews)
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Crying voices heard beneath pile of logs in Iligan coastal village
By Keith Bacongco | Thursday| December 29, 2011 | Filed under: Top
Stories
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – True or not, but some residents in
the coastal barangay of Santiago here claim that almost every night,
they are hearing voices crying for help coming from the pile of logs
swept from the mountains during the flashflood dawn of December 17.
Fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, one of the flood surviors in coastal Barangay
Santiago in Iligan City, is among residents who claim they heard cries
for hel pat night, which they believe are from people who died in the
flood and buried under the pile of logs swept to the shore from the
mountains. MindaNews Photo by Ruby Thursday More
Fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, one of the flood surviors in coastal Barangay
Santiago in Iligan City, is among residents who claim they heard cries
for hel pat night, which they believe are from people who died in the
flood and buried under the pile of logs swept to the shore from the
mountains. MindaNews Photo by Ruby Thursday More
One of them is fisherfolk Jaime Jambre, in his 50s, who said that
there are certain spots in the pile of logs where the voices come
from. He has been hearing voices of children, as well as the elderly,
crying for help three days after that fateful day.
“On the third day after the flood, I heard cries for help. The voices
you hear, you can really feel those people calling for help are in
great difficulty,” he said in the vernacular as he coils his nylon
string used in catching fish, himself standing on top of the logs,
maybe one of which destroyed his house.
A decaying 20-foot log with a diameter of about three feet floating in
the rampaging flood waters swept his house, made only of some light
wood, plywood and bamboo. Lucky for them, his family was already
leaving their house when the log hit it.
“With the log’s size, my house vanished in an instant. More logs came
shortly after that not even a post got left behind,” he said.
Jambre recounted that the flood waters, carrying logs, came from
different directions leading to the sea.
Boys play on top of the logs and other debris in Barangay Santiago,
Iligan City on Tuesday, December 27. The logs were brought down from
the mountains by tropical storm Sendong. MindaNews photo by Ruby
Thursday More
Boys play on top of the logs and other debris in Barangay Santiago,
Iligan City on Tuesday, December 27. The logs were brought down from
the mountains by tropical storm Sendong. MindaNews photo by Ruby
Thursday More
Julius Nadayag, 34, and his family were swept into the open sea by the
strong flood current. They clung on to logs and other floating debris,
wood from houses among them. Luckily, they were not carried too far
from the shore.
“I’m sure there are still bodies trapped beneath the logs. We can
still smell the decaying corpses. They must be the ones crying here at
night,” he believes.
He recalled that it was high tide and the waves were strong when the
flood came to Barangay Santiago.
The logs, Nadayag said, came from the nearby Mandulog River and
slammed into houses.
“The morning after, a lot of bodies, apparently those hit by the logs,
were recovered in the neighborhood. The number could have easily risen
to over 100,” he said.
But one of his neighbors with his two-year-old son did survive despite
being trapped in the pile of logs. Nadayag and the other neighbors
happened to chance upon the father-and-son tandem, then helped them
out.
Some of the residents of Barangay Santiago have sought shelter in the
evacuation camps while some built their makeshift shelters. Those who
opted to stay in the area sometimes group together and sleep in their
neighbors’ shelters because they are disturbed by the crying voices at
night, Nadayag admitted.
Jambre is worried it may take some time for authorities to totally
cleanse the shore of decaying bodies.
As of this writing, 481 deaths were already recorded in this city and
891 more in neighboring Cagayan de Oro City. (Keith Bacongco/
MindaNews)
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