President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered his Cabinet members, particularly Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Renato Solidum Jr., to look into how the government could have do better in terms of issuing warnings against flooding and preemptively evacuating people from flood-prone areas after at least 40 people were reported to have died in Maguindanao during the onslaught of Typhoon “Paeng.”

Presiding over a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) meeting on Saturday, Marcos believed it is “important” for the government “to look back and see why this happened.”

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