ZAMBOANGA CITY — An official of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) has expressed alarm over the recent deaths of children in a rural village here due to food poverty. Juliet Tigo, NAPC regional coordinator for the Zamboanga Peninsula region, was reacting to reports of the deaths of two children in Barangay Maasin—some 13 kilometers from the city center—on Aug. 1. The children were age 1 and 2, and, along with a 7-year-old sibling, were left in the care of their 80-year-old grandmother after they were abandoned by their parents, authorities said.

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