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A peculiar burial procession: North Cotabato clan crosses river to transport remains of relative


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This unique burial march went viral on social media.

Handout Facebook image via John Unson

 

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Filipino ingenuity.

 

This made easy for members of an Ilonggo clan in Aleosan, North Cotabato their transport of the remains of a departed relative to a barrio cemetery after heavy rains prior left the only overland route to the site virtually impassable.

 

Using a raft fashioned from buoyant banana trunks, they managed to transfer last Monday the dead from one bank of the river to another in Barangay Palacat, Aleosan where the graveyard is.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/09/07/2125476/peculiar-burial-procession-north-cotabato-clan-crosses-river-transport-remains-relative

 

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