ITOGON, Benguet – A
small scale miner was killed while two others are recuperating in a hospital
here due to gas poisoning here Monday.
A police report said
the incident happened around 2 p.m. at Sitio Fatima, Ucab inside an impounding
tank of tailings owned by Jimmy Bagangao
Bawayan, 43, resident of the area.
Investigation
disclosed that Allen Dao-as, 24; Peter Ticag, 40 and Benito Bolinget Lengwa,
26, all from Madongo, Sagada, Mt. Province were cleaning the impounding tank
when they suddenly had difficulty in breathing and became unconscious.
Dao-as was
rushed to the Baguio General
Hospital but was declared dead on arrival. Ticag was also brought to the
Baguio Medical Center where he is now confined while Lengwa was brought
to Saint Louis Hospital.
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