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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
Thousands
flee homes
over threat of 'tsunami'
BY ALEX PAL
Thousands of residents from the coastal towns of Dauin, Zamboanguita, Siaton, Sta. Catalina, Bayawan and Basay fled their homes and sought the safety of higher ground Thursday over a rumor that a tsunami was going to hit southern Oriental Negros Thursday night.
The tsunami rumor started from a text message that circulated
like wildfire after an intensity 7.8 earthquake struck a place in Africa
Thursday morning. It can be recalled that a tsunami triggered by the
earthquake that hit Indonesia in December 2004 reached the eastern coast
of Africa. The police declared the text message a fraud last Thursday
night, but there was no more time to stop the evacuation. Oriental police
provincial director Melvin Ramon Buenafe said the text message originally
came from someone in HongKong who sent the text message to relatives
in Oriental Negros after hearing about the African earthquake. 
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STATE
OF EMERGENCY The sky may have appeared to be falling over Metro Manila with the spate of political demonstrations and a supposed coup attempt which prompted President Gloria Arroyo to declare a State of National Emergency last Friday, but it was just another day at the office for Dumaguete City and Oriental Negros. "I sent the President a fax message of support," Gov. George Arnaiz
said late Friday afternoon. Arnaiz had just come from his hometown,
Pamplona, when he learned that the President had been calling his
office. "I didn't have a signal on my cellphone in Barangay Calicanan
this morning," Arnaiz said. Arnaiz said that, as governor and Regional
Development Council 7 chairman, he fully supports the decision of
the President declaring a State of Emergency and stands solidly
behind her. He said he believes that the president's action is backed
by verified reports of threats to the security of the state. |
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PNP
to honor heroic deeds After 18 years, the Philippine National Police will commemorate the heroism of those who defended the former Philippine Constabulary/Integrated National Police camp in Nagbagang, Sta. Catalina, Oriental Negros. It will be recalled that on February 28, 1988, at about 4 p.m., two truckload of fully armed New People's Army rebels attacked the camp with highpowered firearms. Four PC/INP men died in defending the headquarters of the former
336th PC/INP company, with undetermined casualties on the part of
the rebels. |
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