2 kids buried in Isabela landslide

By Raymund Catindig

NAGUILIAN, Isabela -- Two children were buried alive in a landslide here July 16.

        Rose Ann Aguinaldo and Justin Orpiano, both six years old, were playing with other children on the bank of a river in Barangay Palattao when the soil collapsed, according to Chief Inspector Sherwin Concha, town police chief.

The children’s mothers were washing clothes nearby when the incident occurred.

         Villagers managed to rescue the children except Aquinaldo and Orpiano, whose bodies were recovered later.