FACT CHECK: 2024 video PASSED OFF as recent landslide in Baguio, Benguet
A Facebook post showed a video of a landslide, implying it happened recently in Baguio, Benguet. This is false.
A Facebook post showed a video of a landslide, implying it happened recently in Baguio, Benguet. This is false.
Typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut) barrelled through the highlands on Sept 15, 2018 and buried alive a community of small-scale miners who sought refuge in a bunkhouse and makeshift church in Ucab, Itogon town, not knowing it would be their grave.
The traffic light is the first in the entire stretch of the American built highway leading to other towns of Benguet and is the gateway to the Mountain Province.
Reflectorized signages along Halsema Highway is being proposed by the Provincial Board of Benguet.