UN : YOLANDA DEATH TOLL OVER 4,000
Manila, 12 Muharram 1435/15 November 2013 (MINA) – A unit of the United Nations doing relief and rehabilitation work in typhoon-hit provinces in Eastern Visayas has placed the death toll from the calamity to over 4,460, Friday.
In its situation report No. 8, the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a total of 4,460 people were dead while around 921,200 others were displaced due to super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), Philipina media PhilStar quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
The UN-OCHA also pegged the number of people affected by the typhoon to 11.8 million and a total of 243,000 houses destroyed.
It also said that fuel in Tacloban City, one of the hardest-hit areas in the region, “is expected to run out in days.”
The UN-OCHA reported that three relief stations or logistic hubs are now open and operational in other typhoon-battered areas of Samar and Leyte.
Its Haiyan Action Plan, which targets to raise around $58 million, is 19 percent funded.
As of Friday, the UN-OCHA said its Humanitarian Country Team will hold daily donor briefing or updates in Manila.
Meanwhile, Philippine government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) placed the actual body count of the dead at 2,360, only three cadavers higher than of Thursday’s tally.
The NDRRMC situational report also recorded around 3, 853 injured with 77 still missing.
The agency said more than nine million have been recorded affected by the super typhoon in 55 cities and 536 municipalities in Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, Eastern Visayas, Central Visayas, Western Visayas, Northern Mindanao, Davao and Caraga. (T/P09/P03)
