Monkayo landslide casualty count peaks at 11 dead, 1 injured

The casualty count from the Monkayo, Davao de Oro landslide officially peaked at 11 dead and one injured on Saturday afternoon after all of the victims were accounted for.

The Monkayo municipal government said the body of 45-year-old victim Rommel Gumatin was found and retrieved at 1 p.m.

"Mr. Gumatin was the last seen by all the victims of the Mt. Diwata landslide," the Monkayo government said in a social media post.

Gumatin, who passed away alongside seven of his relatives and three others while attending a prayer worship on Thursday, was the final missing victim out of the 12 individuals who were buried under earth and rocks during a landslide caused by heavy rains at Purok 19, Pagasa in Barangay Mt. Diwata.

He was also able to shoot and post a video on social media just before the landslide.

A one-year-old victim was the only survivor of the incident after one of the victims threw the infant out of the home during the landslide.

The search and retrieval operations for the victims took three days with multiple pauses and suspensions due to the severe weather.

Meanwhile, a 23-year-old miner died in another landslide, this one in  Davao de Oro's Maragusan town.

According to a Saturday report by Super Radyo Davao's Jaycel Villacorte on Super Radyo dzBB, the victim was resting with his co-workers in Purok Bagong Silang in Barangay Tandik when the incident occurred.

Two other people in Davao City also died in separate landslides on Friday. — VDV/DVM, GMA Integrated News