Aid rushed to typhoon victims as floods subside 10/04/2011

Aid rushed to typhoon victims as floods subside

10/04/2011
Authorities yesterday rushed aid to thousands of people marooned in their flooded homes for nearly a week after deadly typhoons, but said the worst appeared to be over with waters receding.

The subsiding water allowed relief workers to deliver food, medicine and dry clothes to families who had waited out the floods on their roofs and upper floors of their homes while being hit with back-to-back typhoons.

Among the hardest hit provinces were Bulacan and Pampanga, where residents were stranded on rooftops for days.

Typhoon “Quiel” pummelled Luzon last Saturday, hitting many of the same areas that typhoon “Pedring” had torn through five days earlier..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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