SitiWanMahani - Dianggarkan 10,000 orang mungkin telah terbunuh di
wilayah Filipina tengah Leyte sahaja, yang telah hampir dimusnahkan oleh taufan
kuat Haiyan, kata pihak berkuasa tempatan.
Taufan telah musnah sehingga 80% peratus daripada
kawasan wilayah Leyte kerana ia mengoyakkan melalui Filipina, Ketua Penguasa
Elmer Soria kepada Reuters.
“Kami mempunyai satu mesyuarat malam tadi dengan
gabenor dan pegawai-pegawai lain. Gabenor itu berkata berdasarkan anggaran
mereka, 10,000 mati , "kata Soria .
Kebanyakan yang mati lemas atau terbunuh oleh
bangunan-bangunan runtuh, pihak ber-kuasa berkata. Tacloban bandar pentadbir
Tecson Lim memberitahu AP bahawa jumlah kematian di wilayah Leyte bandar sahaja
“boleh pergi sehingga 10,000.”
Palang Merah berkata sebelum ini bahawa 1,200 orang
yang kita disahkan mati di Filipina.
Filipina Interior Setiausaha Mar Roxas berkata pada
hari Sabtu bahawa ia adalah terlalu awal untuk mengumumkan sebarang angka
muktamad.
“Operasi menyelamat sedang dijalankan. Kami
menjangka jumlah yang sangat tinggi kematian serta cedera, “Roxas memberitahu AP.” Semua sistem, semua
sisa-sisa hidup moden - komunikasi, kuasa, air - semua yang turun Media ke
bawah, jadi tidak ada cara untuk berkomunikasi dengan orang-orang dalam satu
bentuk besar-besaran secaranya"
Kira-kira 400 badan telah pun pulih, tambah Lim.
Ribut lemah pada hari Sabtu selepas berpindah dari
Filipina ke arah Vietnam.
Sementara itu, pihak berkuasa Vietnam memindahkan
lebih 500,000 orang ke kawasan yang lebih selamat sebagai persediaan untuk
kekacauan yang dijangka membuat pendaratan pada petang Ahad.
10,000
feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan
An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in
the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely
destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said.
The typhoon has devastated up to 80 percent of the
Leyte province area as it ripped through the Philippines, Chief Superintendent
Elmer Soria told Reuters.
“We had a meeting last night with the governor and
other officials. The governor said based on their estimate, 10,000 died,” Soria
said.
Most of the dead drowned or were killed by collapsed
buildings, authorities say. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim told AP that
the death toll in Leyte province city alone "could go up to 10,000."
The Red Cross said earlier that 1,200 people we
confirmed dead in the Philippines.
Philippine Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said on
Saturday that it was too early to announce any final figures.
"The rescue operation is ongoing. We expect a
very high number of fatalities as well as injured," Roxas told AP.
"All systems, all vestiges of modern living — communications, power, water
— all are down. Media is down, so there is no way to communicate with the
people in a mass sort of way."
About 400 bodies have already been recovered, Lim
added.
The storm weakened on Saturday after moving away from the Philippines toward Vietnam.
Vietnamese authorities meanwhile evacuated over
500,000 people to safer areas in preparation for the tumult which is forecast
to make a landfall on Sunday afternoon.
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