PHILIPPINES: HOPES DASHED FOR MORE SURVIVORS FROM COLLAPSED BUILDING IN FLOOD-RAVAGED EASTERN PHILIPPINES.

Record ID: 216711

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: HOPES DASHED FOR MORE SURVIVORS FROM COLLAPSED BUILDING IN FLOOD-RAVAGED EASTERN PHILIPPINES.
  • Date: 11th December 2004
  • Summary: (W3)REAL, PHILIPPINES (DECEMBER 11, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. GROUND TO AIR PAN: U.S. CHINOOK HELICOPTERS FLYING (2 SHOTS) 0.14 2. MV/PAN: ARMY SOLDIERS CARRYING BODY BAGS 0.25 3. GV/LV: EVACUEES CROSSING SHALLOW RIVER MOUTH FACING OCEAN (3 SHOTS) 0.45 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER NYMPHA MANGUBOS SAYING: "There are a lot
  • Embargoed: 26th December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: REAL, PHILIPPINES
  • Country: Philippines
  • Reuters ID: LVA25VZ2F5DWDHJG04BDR2IJBV73
  • Story Text: Hopes dashed for finding more survivors in a
    collapsed building in the flood-ravaged Philippines.




    U.S. helicopters flew relief supplies on Saturday
    (December 11) to the devastated towns of Real, Infanta and
    General Nakar in the eastern Philippines, and flew out
    injured and other residents who chose to be evacuated.

    Any hopes of finding more survivors from a building
    that collapsed 12 days ago during a fierce storm were
    dashed as private rescuers wound up work
    on Saturday, saying they'd explored all areas possible.

    Rain fell as miners from private firms prepared to
    leave the rubble, but army troops said they will continue
    excavating bodies from the fallen building as long as it
    was still safe for rescuers to work.

    Real town engineer Nympha Mangubos said bad weather is
    aggravating the situation in their village.

    "There are a lot of problems. First of all, the weather
    is always bad and it's dark where we are supposed to work.

    It is so difficult to move our equipment too," he said.

    Nearly 1,800 people are dead or missing in eastern and
    northern provinces in the main Luzon island after a typhoon
    and three tropical storms in two weeks set off torrents of
    water, mud, boulders and logs that swept away villages and
    bridges.

    At least three million Filipinos have been affected.

    With disease a major worry, relief efforts are focused on
    getting food, clean water, medicine and shelter to 650,000
    of the most desperate by helicopter, boat and on foot.

    The debris from the series of storms and typhoon also
    clogged a major water tunnel connecting Umiray River in
    General Nakar, Quezon to Angat Dam in Bulacan province,
    which supplies water to 97 percent of Manila's estimated 12
    million residents.




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