ADVERTISEMENT“The company continues its efforts to locate six more persons missing,” the statement said. “We would like to extend our utmost gratitude to private groups and the Toledo City government emergency response team for extending valuable assistance in our search and rescue operations,” said the mining firm. Prior to the landslide, CCC operations have been questioned by locals. In 2019, residents of a village in Toledo, Biga, wrote to Mayor Marjorie Perales asking for the transfer of CCC operations to another location, blaming the mining site for respiratory diseases among villagers. They also reported that some of the residents’ houses have suffered cracks on floors and walls that the villagers attributed to vibrations from CCC operations.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2020 03:08 UTC