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(Eagle News)–Borongan City in Eastern Samar has been placed under a modified enhanced community quarantine. With the issuance of Executive Order No. JIDCA-001-0121, Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan C. Agda placed the entire Poblacion area under a “hard lockdown” following an increase in COVID-19 cases there. The hard lockdown is effective today, January 18. Under the lockdown, only essential travel will be allowed to and from the city and the Poblacion area. Work, medical and health […]
(Eagle News) – Six soldiers from the Philippine Army’s 14th infantry Battalion were killed while 20 others were wounded in an ambush by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who used improvised explosives in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The ambush happened late Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, when the NPA rebels detonated six explosives in a remote village called Pinanag-an. The Philippine soldiers from the three platoons of the Army’s 14th IB suffered heavy casualties following the […]
(Eagle News)– A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck Borongan City in Eastern Samar early Friday morning. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake hit 23 kilometers east of Borongan at 1:20 a.m. The earthquake, of tectonic origin, had a depth of 20 kilometers. It was felt at Intensity IV in Borongan City.
QUEZON CITY, July 29 (PIA) — The Low Pressure Area (LPA) East of Borongan City, Eastern Samar has developed into a Tropical Depression and was named “Carina”. According to PAGASA, at 10 am today, the eye of the storm was estimated at 195 km East of Borongan City, Eastern Samar. It has maximum sustained winds of 45 kph near the center and is forecast to move Northwest at 11 kph. It has an estimated rainfall […]
