60 families evacuated after Kanlaon eruption

2026-02-20 - 21:23

BACOLOD CITY—Sixty families were evacuated after Kanlaon Volcano erupted moderately for two minutes on Thursday afternoon, sending ashfall and a sulfuric odor across 50 barangays in nine local government units in Negros Occidental. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said 195 individuals from Barangay Ilijan in Bago City and Barangay Araal in