83-year-old lolo in quake-hit Sarangani longs for home in Carcar, Cebu

Pia Piquero 06/12/2026

CEBU CITY, Philippines — 83-year-old Francisco Tante has survived decades of earthquakes, raised a family hundreds of kilometers away from his native Cebu, and built a life in southern Mindanao. But after Monday’s devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake…

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