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CAUAYAN CITY: Itbayat Mayor Raul de Sagon of Batanes passed away at the age of 59 on Tuesday, his relatives said.
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De Sagon died at 3:15 a.m. due to a lingering kidney ailment.
He was brought to the Itbayat District Hospital and was supposed to be transferred by helicopter to Basco General Hospital for hemoglobin and blood transfusion when he passed.
An independent candidate who won for mayor in 2019, De Sagon is survived by his wife Geg and son Clarence.
Vice Mayor Ronald Gutierrez will succeed De Sagon.
Netizens expressed their condolences to the family of the mayor whom they described as a “diligent leader”.
Itbayat is a 5th class municipality in Batanes island-province with 2,867 people based on the 2015 census.
It is the country’s northernmost municipality, located 156 kilometers (97 mi) from the southernmost tip of Taiwan. It has inhabited small islands of Di’nem, Siayan, Misanga, Ah’li, and Mavulis, the northernmost island of the Philippine archipelago.
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Itbayat Mayor Raul de Sagon CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
De Sagon died at 3:15 a.m. due to a lingering kidney ailment.
He was brought to the Itbayat District Hospital and was supposed to be transferred by helicopter to Basco General Hospital for hemoglobin and blood transfusion when he passed.
An independent candidate who won for mayor in 2019, De Sagon is survived by his wife Geg and son Clarence.
Vice Mayor Ronald Gutierrez will succeed De Sagon.
Netizens expressed their condolences to the family of the mayor whom they described as a “diligent leader”.
Itbayat is a 5th class municipality in Batanes island-province with 2,867 people based on the 2015 census.
It is the country’s northernmost municipality, located 156 kilometers (97 mi) from the southernmost tip of Taiwan. It has inhabited small islands of Di’nem, Siayan, Misanga, Ah’li, and Mavulis, the northernmost island of the Philippine archipelago.
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