TACLOBAN CITY -- The search for missing workers at the Leyte geothermal field ended yesterday with the recovery of two more bodies.
Kananga Mayor Elmer C. Codilla said the bodies of Salvador Yabana and Salcedo Jorden were found at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday and 4:45 a.m. yesterday, respectively.
"It took one week to complete the retrieval operation due to bad weather, fear of another landslide, and rescuers have to be extra careful in searching for buried corpses," Mr. Codilla told BusinessWorld in a telephone interview.
Mr. Codilla said clearing of debris has started to facilitate repair of damaged structures in PAD 403 of the Energy Development Corp. complex in Sitio Upper Mahiao, Barangay Lim-ao in Kananga.
A multi-party monitoring team composed of representatives from the government and private sector has been in the site to conduct an assessment.
Construction workers of J.E. Aradazza Construction and Supply, a subcontractor of First Balfour, Inc., were working on a slope protection project when a portion of the mountain eroded at 9:50 a.m. on March 1. Fourteen workers were buried alive while 31 others were hurt.
In a separate telephone interview, Kananga Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management officer Danilo M. Dasigan said that a 70-meter portion of the mountain crumbled and covered a 20-meter portion of the road. -- Sarwell Q. Meniano
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