COTABATO CITY: Eight residents of the island municipality of Pata, Sulu died while more than 200 others were downed by a diarrhea outbreak in three barangay (villages) there, a health official of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said on Monday.
Kadil Sinolinding Jr., health secretary of the Department of Health–ARMM (DoH–ARMM), said the victims died from severe dehydration while 56 others are now recuperating in hospitals.
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