JOURNEY Singer/Family Fine Despite Philippine Typhoon Killing More Than 1,000
November 9, 2013, 11 years ago
According to CBC News, the Philippine Red Cross is estimating that more than 1,200 people were killed in the coastal city of Tacloban and in Samar province when one of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall slammed into the country, although the deaths have not yet been confirmed by the government.
JOURNEY's Filipino singer Arnel Pinda hails from Quezon City (outside of Manila) and the band says that "Arnel and family are fine. God Bless…"
Gwendolyn Pang, secretary-general of the Philippine Red Cross, said the numbers came from preliminary reports by Red Cross teams in Tacloban and Samar, among the most devastated areas hit by Typhoon Haiyan on Friday.
"An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams," she told Reuters. "In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."She said she expected a more exact number to emerge after a more precise counting of bodies on the ground in those regions.
UNICEF estimates as many as 1.7 million children could be affected by the typhoon.
"With some 36 provinces reported by the government to have been hit by the typhoon ... we know that a significant number of children will have been badly affected," UNICEF's representative in the Philippines Tomoo Hozumi said in a written statement.
Read more at CBC News.
