Maguindanao del Sur has been placed under a state of calamity due to floods that inundated at least 12 of its 24 towns since last week, displacing 223,000 people. | via Edwin O. Fernandez/PDI
So far, 44,722 families or about 223,610 individuals had been affected by floods that submerged communities surrounding the Liguasan marshland, Ambolodto said on Monday.
The hard-hit towns were Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Montawal, Mamasapano, Pagalungan, Datu Salibo, Sultan sa Barongis, Mangudadatu, Gen. SK Pendatun, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Piang, Ampatuan and Paglat. The Liguasan marsh has been the catch basin of floodwaters from the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Cotabato and Bukidnon.
“Even if it is not raining here, we are still flooded because water from upstream passes through our towns through various tributaries,” said Benjamin Alip, municipal disaster officer of Pagalungan, the most affected town. “Since the rivers are [already] heavily silted, the water finds its course through the communities, including our town hall compound,” Alip said.In Pagalungan’s adjacent town of Pikit in Cotabato province, more than P50 million worth of infrastructure and agricultural crops were also damaged by the floods.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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