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In flooded barangay, boats bring residents to registration center

ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Reporter AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN, Producer DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao— Heavy rains at the start of the voters’ registration in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao  left the main road flooded for almost a week now. A resident of Datu Salibo wades in knee-deep flood waters. Photo by AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN. The intermittent downpour all throughout the day

By verafiles

Jul 16, 2012

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ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Reporter

AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN, Producer

DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao— Heavy rains at the start of the voters’ registration in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao  left the main road flooded for almost a week now.
Photo by AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN.
A resident of Datu Salibo wades in knee-deep flood waters. Photo by AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN.
The intermittent downpour all throughout the day also caused the swelling of the Botalo River. As a result, houses in the vicinity are ankle-deep in flood water.
In the registration center at the mini river port in Barangay Pagatin just along the highway, registrants have mostly been arriving in boats.
The mini port is the registration center for residents of barangays Masigay, Magaslong and Tee.
(ARMM WATCH  is a project of VERA Files in partnership with MindaNews, The Asia Foundation and Australian Agency for International Development.)

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