Mindanaotoday.com | ‘Croc’ sighting stirs folks in MisOr city
By: Franck Dick Rosete
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Residents of El Salvador City in Misamis Oriental province have been urged to minimize or avoid seawater activities as of the moment, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRMMO) announced Friday, June 10.
This came after CDRMMO head Teodulfo Bombeo said, through his Facebook post, that an aquatic animal believed to be crocodile was seen by two residents at the coastal area of Purok 1 in Barangay Sinaloc.
After they received the report, the CDRMMO proceeded to the area and conducted an initial investigation.
The creature, Bombeo said, was seen first by a certain Ernesto Ragmac, 44, of the place on Thursday morning, June 9.
Another resident, Kajushua Gando, 28, has also seen it Friday morning, June 10.
Bombeo said that based on the information from the witnesses, the creature has an estimated length of around five feet and width of three feet.
The CDRRMo has asked the residents’ cooperation by temporarily minimizing or avoiding seawater activities to prevent unwanted incidents.
“The city government of El Salvador is advising the people to avoid activities in the sea waters so that we can avoid any accidents,” Bombeo said in vernacular on his FB post.
Meanwhile, Noli Adrian Gabule, the head of El Salvador City Agriculture Office, in an interview over DXCC RMN Cagayan de Oro via FB Live, stressed that they are doing an investigation to confirm the presence of a crocodile in Barangay Sinaloc.
After receiving the report, the said office immediately directed its Bantay Dagat personnel to conduct a seaborne patrol of the said area. However, they have not seen the reported crocodile.
“Our only focus is to take precautionary measures and we already informed our coastal barangays. We will continue our seaborne patrol because we will not neglect this incident. However, we cannot confirm as of the moment the alleged crocodile. Those were just allegations,” Gabule said in vernacular.
Gabule urged the public to not panic and just follow the precautionary measures from the authorities.
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