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==[[Sorsogon News]]==
==[[Sorsogon News]]==
'''NPA landmine misses Army troops in Sorsogon''''
'''Sorsogon City mainstreams disaster risk reduction mechanisms in local planning and urban management''''
*Source: http://208.184.76.175/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&articleid=724794
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=53258
*Wednesday, September 07, 2011 04:32 PM
*Thursday, September 08, 2011
:by PhilSTAR.com
:by Irma A. Guhit




MANILA, Philippines - An Army Battalion commander and 10 of his men escaped unhurt a landmine explosion that suspected communist rebels planted this morning along a road in the in Irosin town in Sorsogon.
SORSOGON CITY, Sept. 8 (PIA) -- Utilizing the strategy of bottoms up approach, the city government of Sorsogon has conducted a series of inter-sectoral consultation to mainstream the interventions for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and institute disaster risk reduction initiatives.
 
“Inputs of the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO), the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) and the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (BDRRMC), together with other members of the community have provided the office on the current situations, conditions and identifying problem areas , provide necessary actions steps and harmonizing it with development plans were the mechanism initiated already by the city government to mainstream climate change adaptation and mitigation, and institute disaster risk reduction, Mayor Leovic R. Dioneda usually expressed whenever he is invited to share the best practices of the city” Tito D. Fortes said in an interview done by the Philippine Information Agency Office here last Monday.
Army Col. Epimaco Makalisang, commander of the 49th Infantry Battalion based in Sorsogon, together with his team on board a KM450 military truck were on their way back to their headquarters when the landmine planted on a road linking barangays Magdagunson and Buenavista exploded at about 8:30 a.m.
“We were tasked to share the best practices of the city government here on DRR in Baguio City only two weeks ago since Mayor Dioneda was in another commitment sharing again the best practices in Solid Waste Management implementation” Fortes said.
 
Fortes, as the newly installed officer in charge of programs and projects under the CCMA provided several persons visiting the city, a tour of the office where emboldened hazard maps were posted showing their areas of vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities of neighboring municipalities that also poses a bearing on certain climatic conditions in the city.
Superintendent Wilson Asueta, Bicol regional police spokesperson, said a landmine exploded while Makalisang's group were negotiating a road in the named barangays on their way back to their camp in Sorsogon City from an Army company detachment in Irosin.
Fortes said that the maps generated through the assistance of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provided personnel working in the DRR a very comprehensive presentation of certain types of vulnerabilities of the city.
 
“This office has created awareness within the basic sectors in the community to look at disasters with preparedness and with a committed responsibility of what should be done collectively in addressing the concerns,” Fortes said.
Asueta quoting reports said the landmine, which failed to hit its target, exploded hastily a few meters from where the military truck was approaching.
”The Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) together with the Sorsogon City Development Planning Office (CPDO) have harmonized their Physical Framework Development Plan,” he said.
 
Reformulation and the enhancement of the city PFDP in compliance with the CCMA and DRR will now serve as the basic operating guidelines and legal policies to be followed for the expedient implementation of programs and projects under the infrastructure development landscape of the city,” Fortes further explained. (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon)
The report said Makalisang and his men visited an Army camp in Irosin and awarded medals and citations to a number of soldiers there.
 
Army patrols have been dispatch in the area to track down New People’s Army (NPA) rebels behind the landmine attack.


==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
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