Family of 5 killed after buli tree falls on nipa hut in Quezon

Five members of a family, including two young children and their grandfather, were killed when a large buli tree fell onto their nipa hut in Barangay Kawayanin, Pitogo, Quezon Province on Sunday morning.

The victims were identified as Alvin Peña, 35; his wife Jean Andrea Peña, 35; their two children, Nazareth Eussef Bueno Peña, 11, and Noeh Isaiah Bueno Peña, five months old; and their grandfather, Alberto Bueno, 66.

The couple's eldest child, a 17-year-old, survived the tragedy after the tree crashed down around 5:30 a.m. amid strong winds from Typhoon Ramil.

Authorities suspect that strong winds from the storm, potentially exacerbated by weakened roots from past attempts to burn it down, caused the tree to fall.

The Office of Civil Defense reported that around 30,000 people across 147 barangays were affected by Typhoon Ramil, with about 22,000 people preemptively evacuated from high-risk areas.