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Published July 3, 2021, 2:37 PM
In less than 24 hours, nearly 1,000 residents in Batangas have left their homes to seek safer shelters amid the continued unrest of Taal Volcano, a disaster management official disclosed Saturday, July 3.
Residents in Laurel, Batangas take temporary shelter at Barangay Ticub Elementary School on July 1, 2021 after a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption occurs at Taal Volcano’s main crater. (Photo by ALI VICOY)
Lito Castro, chief of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) in Batangas, said the number of evacuues has increased to 2,429 Saturday noon from 1,495 Friday night.
“Mayroon na tayong recorded na tumaas na bilang ng evacuees at ine-expect namin na tumaas pa. Pero nakita namin na maraming hindi pumunta sa evacuation centers kundi nagpunta lang sa mga kamag-anak nila. Iyon ang nilo-locate namin (We have recorded an increase in the number of evacuues and we expect that it will continue to rise. But we have obser