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River of life brings death, suffering to CL folk.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Tonette Orejas
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO-Like planting cycles, floods-albug, in the dialect-are regular seasons in the calendar of the hardy Kapampangans, who have lived for centuries in the basin-shaped Central Luzon.
Accustomed to the winds and waters of the Rio Grande (Pampanga River), Kapampangans had come to regard the river as a means of transport and their source of fish and water for their crops.
A source of life, the river has also become a source of suffering.
Of the more than 40 people who died in the rampaging floods that swept through much of Luzon the past week, at least 13 were from Central Luzon. The floods were caused partly by the overflowing of the Pampanga River, officials said.
And it still could get worse for the people in the flooded plains of Central Luzon.
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