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More than 6,000 Typhoon Fatalities in the Philippines
Manila, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) According to an official Filipino agency, a total of 6,009 people people were killed by the super Typhoon Haiyan when it hit the central Philippines in early November. The National Disaster Risk Council said an additional 2,000 people were still missing.
The relief agency revealed in a press release that the situation of victims was still being assessed with international assistance.
The devastating Haiyan was the second-worst to hit the Philippines; in 1976 a typhoon in the southern Philippines left 8,000 dead.
Haiyan also left more than four million people homeless, according to official figures.
Invited by Manila to offer his experience in disaster management, the director of the National Reconstruction Agency of Indonesia, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, visited the hardest-hit areas here. He said rebuilding would require special measures to prevent similar future catastrophes.
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