The Teduray Tragedy – a Rappler series

This reporting project was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists.

In October 2022, landslides triggered by heavy rainfall during Severe Tropical Storm Paeng buried alive at least 27 Teduray residents living in a resettlement area at the foothills of Mt. Minandar in Barangay Kusiong in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte.

Rappler’s monthslong investigation into the tragedy revealed that the shoreline homes...