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Body of missing tourist recovered - report

Dennis Carcamo - The Philippine Star
June 16, 2014 | 8:33am

MANILA, Philippines - Authorities have recovered the body of a missing tourist who went on a white water rafting adventure in Cagayan de Oro City last Friday.

Reports said that rescue and retrieval teams found the body of Aiza Balbin under a boulder in Kabula River around 11 a.m. Sunday.

Balbin's three companions and a river guide were rescued safely after their rubber boat tilted and sunk, reports added.

Balbin, 26, a school nurse at the Holy Name University based in Tagbiliran City, Bohol, was with her boyfriend when the accident happened.  

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