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发帖数: 215 | 1 Official: 10,000 feared dead after Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — As many as 10,000 people are feared dead in one city alone after
Super Typhoon Haiyan — one of the most powerful storms ever recorded —
slammed into the central islands of the Philippines, officials said.
Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial
Gov. Dominic Petilla late Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths
on the island, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings. The
governor
's figure was based on reports from village officials in areas where
Typhoon
Haiyan slammed Friday.
Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim said that the death toll in the city
"could go up to 10,000." A mass burial was planned Sunday in Palo town near
Tacloban.
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said a massive rescue operation was underway. "
We expect a very high number of fatalities as well as injured," Roxas said
after visiting Tacloban on Saturday.
On Samar Island, which is facing Tacloban, Leo Dacaynos of the provincial
disaster office said Sunday that 300 people were confirmed dead in Basey
town and another 2,000 are missing.
He said that the storm surge caused sea waters to rise 20 feet when Typhoon
Haiyan hit Friday, before crossing to Tacloban.
There are still other towns on Samar that have not been reached, he said,
and appealed for food and water. Power was knocked out and there was no
cellphone signal, making communication possible only by radio.
Reports from the other four islands were still coming in, so far with
dozens
of fatalities.
If the typhoon death toll is confirmed, it would be the deadliest natural
catastrophe on record in the Philippines. The deadliest typhoon before
Haiyan was Tropical Storm Thelma in November 1991, which killed around 5,
100
people in the central Philippines. The deadliest disaster so far was the
1976 magnitude-7.9 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Moro Gulf in
the southern Philippines, killing 5,791 people.
The storm weakened Sunday to 103 mph with stronger gusts and was forecast
to
loose strength further when it hits northern Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province
early Monday morning.
As Haiyan heads west toward Vietnam, the Red Cross is at the forefront of
an
international effort to provide food, water, shelter and other relief to
the hundreds of thousands of residents who have lost their homes and
livelihood, Gordon said.
"This is a big, full-court press," he said. "We're pulling out all the
stops
to help."
With widespread power outages, roads blocked, bridges down and debris
strewn
everywhere, getting life back to some semblance of normal in the region
will take time.
"The Philippines are always resilient, and we're going to get back up,"
Gordon said.
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Anna Lindenfors, Philippines director of Save the Children, said officials
in the country were still trying to gather information about the damage
caused by Typhoon Haiyan. As of Saturday, communication lines to the
hardest
-hit areas had yet to be re-established, she said.
"With this magnitude, we know that the destruction is overwhelming," said
Emma Amores, who was waiting outside Villamor Airbase in Manila, where a C-
130 was loading relief supplies and personnel heading to hard-hit Tacloban.
"From the images we saw on TV, it's highly likely our houses are gone. We
just want to know that the family are all safe." | S******8
发帖数: 24594 | | e****e
发帖数: 215 | 3 这么造谣了？我听的日本新闻说死了12,000人。比这个还多。
【在 S******8 的大作中提到】
: 标题党造谣，转你500遍
| l******t
发帖数: 55733 | | f*******n
发帖数: 2665 | 5 菲律宾人说话很不可信，不排除官员夸大伤亡数字以利于争取援助
【在 l******t 的大作中提到】
: 我鳖的气象武器
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