INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2013 typhoon death toll tops 6,000

MANILA: The number of people dead after one of The council said it is still looking for 1,779 miss- Philippines, generated by a major undersea earth- The government said more than four million the world’s strongest typhoons struck the ing people amid an international relief and rehabil- quake in the Moro Gulf, that left between 5,000 people lost their homes to either Haiyan’s 315 kilo- Philippines has risen above 6,000, the government itation effort covering a large devastated area and 8,000 people dead. The Haiyan toll has already meters (195 miles) per hour winds or tsunami-like said yesterday, with nearly 2,000 others still miss- about the size of Portugal. The number of people surpassed Tropical Storm Thelma, which storm surges, and some would continue to need ing. Five weeks after Super confirmed dead or unaccounted for continues to unleashed floods that killed more than 5,100 peo- food aid as well as shelters and jobs. As part of the destroyed entire towns across the nation’s central rise steadily. On November 23, more than two ple in the central city of in 1991, previously international aid effort, an Indonesian official islands, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and weeks after the storm struck, officials put the death the country’s deadliest storm. The involved in the rebuilding of Aceh after the devas- Management Council put the official death toll at toll at 5,235 and listed 1,613 people as still missing. asked donors this week to more than double their tating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was in the 6,009, making it the Philippines’ deadliest recorded The latest official count puts Haiyan nearly on emergency aid donations to the Philippines to Philippines yesterday to help the neighboring typhoon. par with a 1976 tsunami in the southern $791 million to cover needs over 12 months. country recover from the typhoon. — AFP