Search, rescue operations called off at Pampanga supermarket
Credit to Author: ROY NARRA| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:01:57 +0000
AUTHORITIES called off search and rescue operations at a supermarket in Pampanga, which was hit by a strong earthquake on April 22.
Marlou Salazar, director of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Central Luzon, said on Saturday that no signs of life were detected from the rubble that was once the Chuzon Supermarket in Porac.
Salazar said the unofficial list of the five missing individual were being verified.
Salazar also said that the store’s customer area, entrance and exit have been “opened and cleared” of debris and all employees “accounted for.”
A total of 3,632 families in Pampanga, Zambales, and Bataan were affected by the 6.1-magnitude quake, with its epicenter in Castillejos, Zambales, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said in its latest report.
Of the number, 986 families are still housed in evacuation centers in Pampanga, with 688 in two shelters in Floridablanca and 10 in Bacolor while 288 are in San Marcelino, Zambales.
There are 951 families who chose not to stay in evacuation centers,the NDRRMC said.
The quake also damaged P506 million in infrastructure in the Ilocos Region, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, and National Capital Region (NCR) or Metro Manila. Calabarzon is composed of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon.
A total of 1,549 houses were also damaged in Bataan and Pampanga, with 162 totally damaged and 1,387 partially damaged.
The NDRRMC said the death toll remained at 18, with 242 injured, and seven missing in Central Luzon and the NCR.
As of 5 a.m. on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded a total of 793 aftershocks.
Earthquakes also rocked Eastern Samar and Davao over the next two days following the Luzon tremor.
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