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PNP sets up checkpoints to cordon off Taal danger zone

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Police have set up blocking forces in at least three towns of Batangas which are heavily-affected by the ashfall to prevent residents and other people from entering the danger zone due to health and security reasons.

Col. Edwin Quilates, director of the Batangas Provincial Police, said his men assigned to conduct checkpoints were all instructed to maintain zero-people in the ashfall-affected areas of San Nicolas, Agoncillo, and Talisay towns.

What they are trying to prevent, according to Quilates, is the unnecessary loss of lives or injuries of the residents in returning to the areas which experts declared as unsafe for people to go. “There are a number of them returning because of information that there are non-residents who trespass in the areas to steal their personal belongings and animals,” de Sagun told the Manila Bulletin in a separate interview.

Aside from the blocking forces, Quilates said he also deployed a number of policemen to conduct regular patrols in the abandoned residential areas.

 

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