LEGAZPI CITY: Mayor Paul Chino Garcia of Guinobatan town defied the decampment order of Albay Gov. Edcel Greco Lagman on Wednesday.

Garcia said he would not order his constituents to leave the evacuation camps and return to their homes because they might be put in danger once the situation at Mayon Volcano worsens. On Monday, Lagman asked the municipal mayors of Guinobatan and Sto. Domingo to send home some 8,445 people, or about 44 percent of total evacuees, who are not living inside the 6-kilometer permanent danger zone.

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