DHA-GENEVA 95/0412
SITUATION
1. UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR ISSUED CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON DAMAGE CAUSED BY FLASHFLOOD WHICH HIT AREAS NEAR PARKER VOLCANO IN MINDANAO ISLAND.
2. ON 6 SEPTEMBER, FLASHFLOOD INUNDATED 7 MUNICIPALITIES IN SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE AND 4 IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE. POPULATION AFFECTED IN TWO PROVINCES ARE: IN SOUTH COTABATO - 15,563 PERSONS OR 3,052 FAMILIES, AND IN SULTAN KUDARAT - 8,915 PERSONS OR 2,172 FAMILIES. REPORTED CASUALTIES INCLUDE 48 DEAD, 7 INJURED AND 382 MISSING.
3. IN SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE, ESTIMATED COST OF DAMAGE TO BRIDGES, ROADS, AGRICULTURE, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND TRANSPORTATION IS ABOUT USD 31.909 MILLION (PHP 327.2 MILLION). DAMAGE TO 321 HOUSES WAS ALSO REPORTED. IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE, ESTIMATED COST OF DAMAGE TO BRIDGES, ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION IS ABOUT USD 2.860 MILLION (PHP 72.7 MILLION). DAMAGE TO 12,261 HA OF AGRICULTURE AND 27 HOUSES WAS ALSO REPORTED.
NATIONAL RESPONSE
4. IN SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE, 2,900 PERSONS OR 467 FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED. IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE, 1,050 PERSONS OR 262 FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED. RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS ARE ON-GOING.
5. A QUICK RESPONSE TEAM DISPATCHED BY THE PHILIPPINES INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY (PHIVOLCS) IS INVESTIGATING CAUSE OF MASSIVE DISCHARGE OF FLOOD WATERS TO LOW-LYING AREAS.
6. IN THE ABSENCE OF DEFINITE INDICATORS FOR RENEWED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, PHIVOLCS REITERATES THAT PARKER VOLCANO HAS NOT ENTERED ERUPTIVE PHASE.
7. NO INTERNATIONAL APPEAL HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
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