CATIGBIAN, BOHOL: “It’s the worst thing we’ve seen in our lifetime,” Father Danilo Maniwan, parish priest of the Immaculate Conception Church, said as he looked around at the devastation in his town left by the strong earthquake and the people who escaped the tragedy.

Catigbian is one of two towns closest to the epicenter of the magnitude 7.2 tremor that shook Central Visayas on October 15. More than 200 people were killed and thousands left homeless.The worst hit municipalities in Bohol are: Catigbian, Sagbayan, Clarin, Inabanga, Buenavista, Danao, Carmen, Loon, Maribojoc, Antequera, Baclayon, Loay, Lila and Dimiao.

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