Valencia City responders use motorized rubber boats to search the Maapag and Kulaman rivers for the missing six-year-old boy swept away by strong floodwaters on Monday, July 13. His 12-year-old brother was recovered dead the following day. — Photo from Valencia CDRRMO
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon — Search and retrieval operations continued Wednesday for a six-year-old boy who remained missing after he and his older brother were swept away by raging floodwaters while crossing a spillway with their father on a motorcycle.
The body of the elder sibling, 12, was recovered Tuesday morning after it was found entangled in large tree debris along the Katipunan River in Sitio Sadiri, Barangay Dagat-Kidavao in this city.
June Ray Valero, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) chief, said the incident happened while the family was crossing the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) spillway near the boundary of Barangay Dagat-Kidavao in Valencia City and Barangay Lumintao in Quezon town at around 4 p.m. Monday when the motorcycle was overwhelmed by strong floodwaters.
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