Manila, Jan. 17 -- Livestock traders taking advantage of the unrest caused by Mt. Kanlaon's activity in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, have been banned from entering the city, an official announced on Thursday.
Edna Lhou Masicampo, the city's designated information officer, said the decision followed a meeting between Mayor Jose Chubasco Cardenas and about 45 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who reported being forced to sell their livestock at unfairly low prices.
The evacuees claimed the traders, known locally as "compradors," intercepted them at border checkpoints on Wednesday, bypassing the city's designated stockyard and auction market.
The IDPs, allowed to return briefly to their farms after the Task Force Kanlaon lifted the en...
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