Sand quarrying buoys up Zamboanga Sibugay town

ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY: The mining of river sand continues unabated in Naga town in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga Sibugay.

Enterprising villagers have built flat-hull wooden boats to haul sand from the river and bring them to the shore in the village of Tenan where they sell the sand to buyers. One elderly villager said the sand sells P500 a cubic meter and that many people are buying from the village for construction purposes.