Thousands wait in the cyclone-affected regions in the Philippines to food and water. Again and again it comes to looting. When run on a food storage several people died.
Authorities and volunteers get the disastrous supply situation for the typhoon victims in the Philippines barely under control. There is a lack of food and clean water. And again it comes to looting. During rush of despair on a rice warehouse on the devastated island of Leyte eight people had been killed by a collapsing wall, said Rex Estoperez, spokesman for the National Food Authority.
Several thousand people have stormed the warehouse at Alang Alang about a hundred kilometers south of Tacloban on Tuesday. According to data from Estoperez they took 129,000 bags of rice of 50 kg. He estimated the damage at the equivalent of about 21 million euros. “We appeal to those who have taken bags of rice to share them with others and not for sale,” he said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is the number of victims of typhoon “Haiyan” currently with 1800’s. Many people, however, were still missing.
The Authority lists only confirmed cases and are no estimates. The President did, however, Benigno Aquino, who had refused to accept the said local officials of a number of 10,000 victims. He expected deaths from 2000 to 2500, he told CNN.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency at least 2623 people were injured. In the emergency area mobile units with doctors and nurses are now on their way to provide first aid – among them teams from Germany. However, bad weather makes the needs of survivors remains difficult.
Heavy rain has set many of the debris fields in which people live mostly in the open air under water. On Wednesday, there lit up in the region around Tacloban initially, but the weather service expects in the coming days with further rainfall.
“Haiyan” was whipped on Friday with top speeds of up to 380 kilometers per hour over the Philippines. He does so as the worst typhoon ever to hit the country. Large areas were still inaccessible, so there was no view of the scale of the disaster also up mid-week.
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