By Artemio A. Dumlao (philstar.com), November 23, 2016
ITOGON, Philippines – Three small scale miners choked to death inside a mine tunnel in Itogon, Benguet Monday afternoon.
Rosalino Api-it Narciza, 54; Santiago Falikao Banganan, 32; and Barry Rimando Api-it, 36, all residents of Ucab, were retrieved dead from a mine portal at Fatima, Ucab.
Reports said that Narciza entered the mine portal to retrieve mining equipment but his colleagues never saw him out, prompting his nephew Api-it to check on him but he too never came out.
Alarmed too, Banganan also tried to check on the duo, but also did not emerge from the portal after several hours.
Colleagues and authorities launched a retrieval operation and found the three already dead inside the tunnel.
The death of the three is yet the latest among the long list of deaths inside mine tunnels in Itogon.
Mayor Victorio Palangdan called on small scale miners, mostly unaided by breathing apparatuses, to exercise extra care in their work.
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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