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Body of missing boy swept by floods in Cebu City recovered

Lorraine Ecarma

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Body of missing boy swept by floods in Cebu City recovered

Emergency responders carry the dead body of 16-year old boy that was reported missing during a flash flood in Gen. Maxilom Ave Cebu City, Tuesday night, October 13. The body was recovered underneath a creek of a hotel in Gen. Maxilom Ave. on Thursday, October 15, 2020.

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Authorities say the boy was reported missing Tuesday, and his body was found almost 48 hours later

Authorities on Thursday, October 15, recovered the body of a 16-year-old boy who was earlier washed away by high flood waters in Cebu City.

The boy was reported missing on Tuesday, October 13. His body was found almost 48 hours later.

The body was found in a creek, not far from General Maxilom Avenue where he reportedly fell asleep with his friends before the downpour.

On the same night, two residents also died from the heavy flooding in the city.

The fatalities were an 85-year-old male who slipped in the flooded first floor of his house, and a 49-year-old male who drowned when he was swept by the flood.

Cebu Mayor Edgardo Labella, who went to the site of retrieval, told media that he had already told owners of structures built within the three-meter easement zones of the city’s creeks and rivers to gradually clear the areas.

Labella added that the retrieval took more than a day because the body had been stuck in an obstruction under the bridge.

Ipa-identify asa jud nga mga buildings nga naa’y obstruction. Gipatawag sad nato ang mga tag-iya. Makig-isturya usa ta nila tanan para mabuhatan ug unsay intervention una,” he said.

(We first have to identify which buildings have obstructions. We met with the owners. We’re talking to them so we can come up with interventions in the meantime.) — Rappler.com

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