Over 200 Balamban Dwellers Evacuated to Safer Place

More than 200 persons in upland barangay of the municipality of Balamban were evacuated to a safer place when a sinkhole was discovered in their area late afternoon Monday.

Chief Inspector Richard Oliver, Balamban Police Station chief, said the evacuees are transferred to the Gaas Barangay hall and Gaas National High School.

According to Oliver they forced the people to leave their houses because aside from the sinkhole, continuous landslides are also detected in the said barangay.

Oliver added the area has been declared long before as landslide-prone, so they are now studying whether to allow the residents to permanently vacate the place.
But sad to note that some of the dwellers have preferred to stay in their houses because they have been there for so many years already.

Last week, the Cebu Provincial Police Office head , Sr. Supt. Noel Gillamac has implemented the full alert status over the whole province of Cebu as tropical depression Agaton (Lingling) was approaching.

Gillamac ordered all policemen under his command to coordinate with the local government and at the same time monitor the possible landslide and flooding in the mountain barangays of Balamban.