Estanislao Albano Jr.

TABUK CITY – They should not endanger their lives due to uncertain prospects.

This was the reaction of OIC-Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Ricardo Dang-iw when he learned that the treasure hunting group which just lost two of its members when one side of the hole they were digging collapsed March 3 intends to continue with the project after the victims are buried.

“You do not expect the retreating Japanese to bury treasure very deep. Had they really left some treasure here, it would have been in shallow holes which would have been made shallower through time by natural weathering of the ....... cover,” Dang-iw said.

He added that it is also highly unlikely that anybody would bury treasure in a loose ground because of the danger to the one hiding the treasure himself.

The digging at Burubor, Bulo, this city, where the treasure hunters were buried alive was already 18 meters deep when the accident happened and that, according to a member of the group, the bottom is wider than the upper part of the hole because they have reached a sandy and watery layer which kept eroding.