Cabanatuan

[kah-vah-nah-twahn]

noun

1. a city on central Luzon, in the N Philippines.

Example Sentences

In Cabanatuan, one of the worst-hit cities, the BBC saw residents rushing into their homes to pull out furniture and pets on Monday, desperate to salvage as many of their possessions possible as water levels rose.

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Cabanatuan resident Mercidita Adriano and her family had trimmed trees near their home last week to prepare for the storm.

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More than 2,500 died at Cabanatuan camp during the war, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

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Joseph E. Lescaut, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who also died at Cabanatuan after the Bataan Death March, had also recently been accounted for.

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Pierce was held at the Cabanatuan camp where he and the other POWs endured malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery.

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