44 years ago: remember the tsunami and the Cotabato earthquake

Cotabato City – Midwife, Kongan Goyal Kamed, and her family survived for three days in the dark, buried under tons of debris without food and water when the tsunami earthquake collapsed the building they were renting, along with many of the city’s historic buildings on August 17, 1976. Jialil was Kamed, then 26, was pregnant when she and her family were buried deep in a torrent of concrete materials that shattered in the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude (Richter scale) earthquake. She suffered a partial miscarriage and her third child did not live long after she was born on January 15, 1977.

More than 4,000 people were killed, more than 2,000 injured, and 4,000 others missing from now on, 44 years ago in the earthquake that terribly shook central Mindanao, within seconds from near midnight on August 16 to 12:00 early on the 17th. August in 1976. The earthquake had several weeks and even months after that. Kongan and her husband, Ibrahim Kamed Jr., aged 25, were buried literally alive for three days in crooked bodies, lying face down and tied up with ample amounts of concrete and corrugated steel bars – she was barely able to turn and protect the second child, Zahra Joy, She was six to seven months old, and their niece Saqira, 14, had to amputate her left arm after her rescue. Now, aged 44, married with three children, Zahra Joy Kamed-Gwibonen is a freelance humanitarian and emergency emergency aid for disaster incidents in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM-READi). A passion for humanitarian work, she said her family’s nightmarish experience made humanitarian work her passion in life so much that she had to spend two years in college to obtain her BA in Social Business, at the University of Mindanao, after finishing AB Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. For Zahra Farah, working in her profession is an opportunity to return the favor, to be grateful to God Almighty and to the people who helped save and keep them alive – and to live a normal life again. She worked on the Ecumenical Committee for Displaced Families and Communities under the father’s leadership. Eliseo Mercado, Jr. OMI, until ECDFC developed into Mindanao Tulong Bakwit (MTB), led by Rose Ibrahim-Ebus, which featured in many local and international intervention programs during the 2008 humanitarian crisis. Kamid Jr. A teacher by profession, he was working as a local government operations officer at the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development (MLGCD) at the time, assigned to Parang, Maguindanao, while Kongan was a midwife working in the city hospital under the supervision of the late Dr. Eduardo della Fuente. A conclusion of sorts that would have happened next, Kongan recalls that her husband Ibrahim Jr. took all of his books from the old sewing shop to their new branch on the ground floor of the Sultan Hotel – the Vice President’s Theater Building. The books in a handful of piles served as a shield for them from fallen concrete slabs and pillars that could hang them to death. After that, most of the earthquake victims were trapped and pushed to death under the fallen building structures, and many drowned in sudden tsunami-induced floods along the shores of the Moro Bay. The coastal community of Barangay Linek was a ghost village after the 30-foot-high waves caused instantaneous deep floodwaters wringing them off the face of the earth, according to a documentary filmed by the Associated Press (AP), two days after the accident.

The couple’s eldest child, a boy, survived that night with his grandparents at the flagship department store, Stag Tailoring, owned by Guialils and Kamids, along Magallanes Street in Cotabato City, now Don Rufino Alonzo Street. The ill-fated branch of Stag Tailoring, where the young Camid couple lived and were trapped on that killer day, was one of the best commercial sites dotted with colorful city lights on the road at night on the ground floor of the Sultan Hotel, along Don Rovino Alonzo Street, next to the Radiola store and office entrance Hotel reception. The couple Kamid and Saqira lived, now alone, to tell the story – so did Zahraa Joy, 44, retell the story from her elders’ accounts of personal experience, and then to her fellow humanitarian workers or trainees in the accident The Leadership System (ICS) to manage Disaster risk reduction in BARMM. Unable to bear the weight of the solid concrete preventing it from sinking deeper onto it, her left leg arm had to be amputated. “Not by bread alone” they did not live by bread but by the word of God said in prayers – and in listening to a transistor radio it prepared for the daily dxMS reports of the field radio station employees and the comments of reporters – among them Carlos Bautista, Cecil Cadorna, Jess Curtis, Fred Papaw and Mike Robregado And John Subedo. The Camidians hosted their young relatives either as transient students or as resident students. One of them, Asiriya Kamed, a 10-year-old elementary school student, died from wounds sustained from a steel bar pierced on the back from solid concrete. Another family member, Mutawli Ali, who lives with the Kamed family, has been exhumed. Two others survived – Abdullah Mustafa, a visiting relative and municipal health inspector in Datu Piang, Maguindanao, and the driver, Genting Ballung. They were up until about midnight and were eating durians when the ground began to shake, Kungan Kamed remembers, now 70 – and suddenly, the entire building shook as well, like a small boat cradled by the big waves in the middle of the sea. The arms extending over the head were to introduce the food of the elder Camid and the scent of burning incense in daily prayers, which tended to provide energy – and oxygen – to the couple and children who needed them to breathe, replacing the light energy they had lost in the dark underground. What did they eat or drink in three long days of their lives in the dark and squeezed into a small space, lying face down and still able to breathe? The answer is that they did not eat or drink water. Zahra Joy was the only one who had a few bottles of instant milk from her mother the night before. Joey’s parents remembered her growing up that the fragrant scent of Magwindanaon incense called “Todtogan” brought them some kind of energy – who knows, the oxygen he breathed in – as if the lost light filled with energy to survive the pitch darkness and the global warming. Deciduous buildings It should be noted that among the buildings and structures that collapsed in the historic August 1976 earthquake, the old South Seas Store Building was along Jose Lim, near the Anez Gas Station. Sultan’s Theater in Magalanes (Rufino Alonzo); Fransel Theater on José Lim, and partly the Rio Theater on Bendaton Street; Harvardan Colleges main building (Bondon Street); Di Max Restaurant in what is now Fuji Image on Makakua Street; Arch Pharmacy store in what is now Pritong Manok Restaurant, in front of Mang Inasal along Pendatun Street, First Traders (then First Gift Trading) along Makakua Street, and Cotabato Auto Supply store along Don Rufino Alonzo Street. Rescue How were they rescued? The late Dr. Dela Fuente met Sheikh Kamed at the rescue site at the collapsed Sultan Hotel in the theater building. Kungun, the midwife, happened to be a medical staff member at Dela Fuente at the city hospital on Bendaton Street (then Almonte Street) and the University of Notre Dame ballroom building and the New Grand Hotel, which faces Cotabato’s old wharf. Then the doctor urged the crane operator on duty that day not to leave the place yet to another location, and to continue the calibrated excavation of the wreckage of the Sultan Hotel – the Com Theater Building – Theater, because his crew’s family had gone hanging under a large volume of concrete debris there. The operator acquiesced, and true enough, the existence of life soon emerged – and there wasn’t one, but six people dug alive underneath, including newborn baby Zahra Joy, who was six to seven months old.

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