The Department of Social Welfare and Development is currently contacting the families of eight people who died in the raging flood in Tanay.

This comes after seven senior citizens and a five-year-old kid died after floodwaters swept the vehicle they were on in Barangay Sta. Ines after they received their cash assistance from the government.

DSWD spokesperson Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez, the distribution of such aid can be postponed when there is a threat of bad weather because it is better to consider the safety of their staff and those who will receive the aid.

Lopez added that the DSWD will provide psychosocial counseling and cash assistance to the victim's relatives.

"The DSWD is coordinating with their relatives. We are very sorry for what happened and at the same time we are also coordinating for the psychosocial counseling for the relatives, those bereaved love ones by the accident, we will also provide burial assistance of at least P10,000 and also for those who were injured, they will also receive P5,000.00, in addition to the family food packs that we will distribute to them," Lopez said in an interview with Daily Tribune.