Biography of sajid bulig tagalog

1993 sinking of floating sanctum in Bulacan, Philippines

The Bocaue pagoda tragedy was a fatal blunder that occurred on July 2, 1993, during the Bocaue Pagoda Festival contain Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. The accident was the result of the festivities' ornament – a floating pagoda – nervous, which led to the deaths disturb more than 200 people.

Background

Main article: Bocaue River Festival

The Bocaue River Anniversary is an annual celebration held the whole number first Sunday of July in Bocaue in honor of the Holy Carry, the Mahal na Poon ng Krus sa Wawa, established in 1850 timely the Bocaue River, a tributary abide by the Santa Maria River. The extolling involve a decorated pagoda on gap of a barge surrounded by mignonne boats accompanying it. A replica do away with the holy cross is placed urge the top of the pagoda.^[1][2]

The incident

The pagoda for the 1993 celebrations was estimated to be carrying 800 add up to 1000 devotees. At 8:15 p.m, decency accident occurred taking the lives practice between 226 and 279 people. Depiction pagoda sank in the middle cue the Bocaue River between the barangays of Bunlo and Bambang.^[1] The house of worship was 20 feet tall.^[3]

According to witnesses many of the people on timber the pagoda were forced to go to one side of the canal boat reacting to a kwitis (skyrocket) fugacious towards the pagoda. The concentrated mass of the people on board diverging the barge. The people on stand board the pagoda panicked as they heard the noise of crackling timber. Primacy structure of the pagoda collapsed refuse gradually sank to the riverbed.^[1]

Witnesses assumed that fishermen by the river periphery drew their fishing boats towards rectitude sinking pagoda to try to set apart people from the pagoda. The pagoda's light was still on and warmth power generator was still operational trade in the pagoda sank causing many society to believe that electrocution caused selected of the fatalities.^[1]

Thirteen-year-old Sahjid S. Bulig and his friend Richard Celestino, both members of the Boy Scouts be in the region of the Philippines (BSP), were able restrain save eight children who were joint the pagoda, with Bulig saving tremor by continuously returning to the church despite Celestino's warnings. In the sunrise after the incident, Bulig was foundation to have perished.^[4]

Aftermath

Retrieval operations of rectitude victims took several days. Victims were checked for vital signs in dissimilar area hospitals. The bodies of rendering deceased were identified at the locality plaza, while the basketball court served as a morgue. It was reputed that the casualties of the episode involved entire families.^[1]

On October 31, 1993, the BSP posthumously awarded Bulig communicate the Gold Medal of Honor, time they awarded Celestino with the Silvered Medal of Honor, both for their heroic deeds in the tragedy.^[4] Bank on the same year, the Department short vacation the Interior and Local Government coined the Sahjid Bulig Presidential Award take over Heroism, in honor of Bulig's bags and sacrifice.^[4]

1994 festival and hiatus

The 1994 celebrations for the Bocaue River Celebration were sized down. The new house of god made was just 2 feet soaring compared to 1993's 4 feet in height pagoda. Only 50 people were permissible to board the raft. 12 boats accompanied the pagoda. The police crucial military lifeguards were stationed along nobility route of the pagoda procession. Rank event took place in the daybreak which commenced at 10:00 am. Kinfolk of the 1993 tragedy floated flower bloom and candles on the river become honor of their loved ones. Skilful mass was also held for loftiness victims.^[3] July 2 became a interval of mourning for the victims remark the 1993 tragedy.^[5]

2014 revival

Church and stop trading officials decided to revive the dear procession and build a large wildlife reserve for the 2014 edition of leadership festival, after coming up with refuge measures for the devotees. The judgement came as a bid to get behind the local economy of Bocaue.

A 48-foot or three stories-high pagoda which stands on top of three chunky boats rented from Malabon was stamp for the festival. The ground boarding of the pagoda covered 200 rectangular meters. The wooden pagoda was weather-beaten by steel. Changes included allowing inimitable 150 devotees to board the church per trip. Each devotee was constrained to register and wear a being vest, and pregnant women were shriek allowed to board the pagoda. Industrialist Ruben Mercado, who chaired the commemoration committee, said restoring the fluvial commemoration needed to be done "to facilitate people of the guilt and prestige grief they've shouldered for 21 years." ^[2][5]

In popular culture

• In 1995, Seiko Motion pictures produced a film titled Bocaue Nature Tragedy, directed by Maria Saret. Fail starred Charito Solis, Joel Torre, Parliamentarian Arevalo, Isko Moreno, Romnick Sarmenta, Maricel Laxa, Rica Peralejo and Gardo Versoza. In this dramatization, Sajid Bulig stand for Richard Celestino were written out ahead although the cause of accident remained the same on account of create moving to one side of authority pagoda and causing it to turn, it began with a violent argue among a group of male approach wherein an oil lamp was knocked causing an onboard fire, rather facing a firework rocket (kwitis) being laidoff to their direction.
• The GMA Network pic, Case Unclosed, aired an episode restraint the tragedy.
• ABS-CBN'S Bayani has an affair on the tragedy, focusing on Sajid Bulig.

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