05 December 2006
ON THE FOURTH DAY OF SEARCH AND recovery operations, the death toll continued to rise in Bicol.
The regional Office of Civil Defense said the number of fatalities in Albay, Catanduanes and Camarines Sur had reached 407 as of 9 a.m. yesterday.
In Albay alone, the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council placed the total body count at 438—104 in Legazpi City; 79 in Daraga; 17 in Sto. Domingo; 180 in Guinobatan; 8 in Ligao City; 3 in Pio Duran; 26 in Camalig; 9 in Malilipot; 11 in Rapu-Rapu, and one in Tabaco City.
The PDCC said the causes of deaths were drowning, mudflows, landslides, heart attacks, or due to flying objects.
A total of 591 were reported still missing.
Daraga had the most number of missing at 210, followed by Guinobatan, 200; Legazpi, 168; Sto. Domingo, 14, and Camalig, 4.
A total of 1,140 persons were reported injured.
As of yesterday, the PDCC said 3,738 families or 17,593 people were still in different evacuation centers in Albay.
In Catanduanes, the OCD reported that 4,834 houses were destroyed; Camarines Sur, 823, and Albay, 303.
Damaged houses numbered 4,636 in Catanduanes; 1,677 in Camarines Sur, and 329 in Albay.
The OCD partial report said damage to agriculture in Albay, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon reached more than P400 million. Reports from Gina Rodriguez and Ephraim Aguilar, Inquirer Southern Luzon
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