Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday morning dispatched the city’s heavy equipment to Lansones in the east coast and Latap in the west coast to clear the roads due to landslides triggered by Sunday’s heavy rains.

The mayor received the report about the landslide incidents while spearheading the turnover of a school building project at the Baliwasan Central School.

The continuous rains Sunday may have caused the soil to erode in landslide prone areas in the two barangays. Landslides refer to the down slope movement of masses of earth materials and rocks under the influence of gravity.

According to Mayor Lobregat heavy rains the last few days triggered a landslide along Lansones and Latap roads in yesterday.

No one was reported injured in the landslide, which took place early yesterday morning.

The mayor sent the pay loader and dump trucks to the two barangays to clean up the roads.

The Lansones barangay road has been closed to traffic temporarily but it took only two hours for government personnel to clean up the road. 

Rains spawned by the inter tropical convergence zone battered Sunday swelling rivers and flooding low lying areas.

The PAG-ASA reported that the ITCZ affecting all over Mindanao was the main cause of the continuous downpour the whole day of Sunday. (Sheila Covarrubias)