Tribal militiamen stage rally outside evacuation camp in Davao City

While a Lumad woman was in labor inside an evacuation center ran by the religious, hundreds of indigenous peoples (IPs) believed to be members of the paramilitary group, Alamara, passed by the center and held a brief protest action against the New People's Army.

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A Lumad from Kitaotao,Bukidnon pays visit to the newly-born baby inside the evacuation camp in UCCP Haran Tuesday afternoon. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

WELCOME BABY!

A Lumad from Kitaotao,Bukidnon pays visit to the newly-born baby inside the evacuation camp in UCCP Haran Tuesday afternoon. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

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HOME BIRTH. Matigsalug-Kulamanon from Kitaotao, Bukidnon Rita Yambanao carries her grandson after she assisted giving birth to her niece, Lindy, on Tuesday afternoon. Lindy is the third woman from their barangay who gave birth inside the church-owned compound where Lumad evacuees are sheltered. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Lumad woman gives birth in evacuation center

Lindy Yambanao, a 23 year-old Matigsalug-Kulamanon tribal woman from Kitaotao, Bukidnon gave birth to a baby boy, her fourth child Tuesday afternoon in a make-shift shelter house inside an evacuation center here.

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