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BusinessMirror - Police official with 10,000 ?Yolanda? dead stats sacked

Police official with 10,000 ‘Yolanda’ dead stats sacked

A POLICE official who said at least 10,000 people may have perished from the typhoon in Tacloban City had been relieved of his post by the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Chief Supt. Elmer Soria, director of the Police Regional Office 8, was sacked from his post on Thursday, days after he was asked to explain about his claim.

Soria was even admonished earlier by PNP chief Director General Alan Purisima, saying the police official should base his statements from correct figures.

Purisima even said that if police officials have figures, they should send them to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), which should collate the numbers and officially released them.

President Aquino said on Wednesday that the fatalities from the typhoon could reach from 2,000 up to 2,500 people.

Meanwhile, the NDRRMC said the government’s relief efforts may already be reaching all municipalities in the Visayas that have been affected or ravaged by the Category-5 typhoon.

“All areas in Leyte and Samar were beginning to be reached yesterday [on Wednesday], whether by sea, land and air,” NDRRMC Executive Director Eduardo del Rosario said during a briefing on Thursday.

“Today we will reach all the municipalities,” he said.

Del Rosario said that access to all the affected municipalities comes with the target of the government to distribute at least 137,000 family food packs a day.

“For those who have not received relief assistance yet, they just have to sound off so that they could be sent with food packs,” he said.

Del Rosario said the distribution of goods is already in full swing, with nearly all the roads already accessible and communication networks working.

The Department of Transportation and Communications has already provided two barges that will help ferry relief assistance to Allen, Northern Samar, where they will be picked up by trucks for their transportation.

Del Rosario said the additional barges will unclog the port traffic in Matnog, Sorsogon, where those going for Samar, through Allen, are originating.

The head of the NDRRMC confirmed reports that some village officials are playing favorites in the distribution of goods, principally out of party affiliations.

“Politics should be removed. Instead, the focus should be relief distribution,” he said.

The NDRRMC listed 2,357 fatalities from the typhoon as of Thursday, although reports coming from the Visayas said at least 4,000 people could have already died.

There were also reports that some of the fatalities perished, not because of the typhoon but due to hunger.

The military reported that 54 bodies have been recovered by members of the Abay search-and-rescue team who went to Leyte to help in the ongoing search-and-rescue operations.

Maj. Emmanuel Garcia said 11 of the bodies were fished out at the Tacloban bay.