Philippine Typhoon Death Toll Rising to 1249 and The Rebels Claim to Punish Alms
by A disaster management officials are concerned that the number of dead in one of the worst natural disasters taking place in the Philippines for two decades rose to 1249 1100 in what was considered missing, said communist rebels that he should punish those responsible for this.
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The storm flooded coastal villages and Ashe island of Mindanao in mid-December to water, mud and tree trunks and destroyed more than ten thousands of homes and displaced 300,000 people mostly living in emergency shelters.
Benito Ramos, chairman of the National Agency for Disaster that fishermen from the island of Bohol in the central help to recover the bodies that washed away hundreds of kilometers.
He said in a radio interview, “as long as there are bodies in the sea, we will continue to search and pick-up if this continues after the New Year.”
He said the authorities expanded the search area to a radius of 300 km.
President Benigno Aquino, who visited the disaster area last week for an investigation and asked why officials allowed the citizens to build homes in areas of danger did not prevent illegal logging.
Communist Party and ordered his fighters on Monday to collect donations to assist in relief efforts and threatened on the anniversary of its establishment forty-third to be punished personally responsible for the disaster.
The party and its activity in 69 of the total 80 Territories at the level of the country has pledged to rebel force, consisting of five thousand individual to “take charge of natural disaster and the subsequent loss of her life, responsibility to the people.”
The military said the rebels use the disaster as a pretext to intensify extorts mining companies, agriculture, logging and construction.
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On December 26, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Rebels are not part of the relief operation and they should stay away from government effort to rebuild the damages. In the first place, residents knew their situation when they first built their homes on that place.