This is where the victims retrieved after a landslide happened in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City on Tuesday afternoon. They were buried with limestone. (CDN PHOTO / LITO TECSON)
While the rain on Monday night provided relief to the parched land in the city, it, caused a landslide that claimed the life two boys.
Three-year-old Jacob Lumapas was already dead when brought to Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) along B. Rodriguez Street here past 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
His brother Ian Vanlor, 11, later died in Perpetual Succour Hospital.
Their mother, Mitos, 30, was confined in VSMMC.
Councilor Dave Tumulak, head of the city’s command center, said it rained in Sitio Sun-ok, Barangay Lahug, on Monday night which may have soften the hillside where the family had extracted anapog (limestone).
The Lumapas family lives on a shanty built on an elevated portion of Sitio Sun-ok, close to where they dug the ‘anapog’ that they sold as source of livelihood.
About 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Mitos and her two boys decided to take shelter from the sweltering heat in the site where they had extracted the limestone.
But the hillside had caved in and they were covered with soil, said Tumulak.
He said Mitos’ husband and some neighbors helped in rescuing his wife and two sons.
The two boys were loaded onto separate motorcycles.
Ian was brought to Perpetual Succor and Jacob was brought to VSMMC.
Responding medics brought Mitos to VSMMC.
Tumulak said he already sent safety officers into the area to assess if there was a need to evacuate the Lumapas family.
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