A task group of the police, military and disaster response officials has been focusing on the retrieval of bodies from the streets as well as clearing the roads of debris, six days after “supertyphoon Yolanda” (international name Haiyan) that devastated this city.
A storm surge as high as six meters hit the shorelines of Catanduanes on Tuesday, preventing passenger vessels from docking in the Virac port, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Bicol said.
The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) in Bicol on Sunday activated Task Force Pablo, a disaster response group that would undertake search and rescue operation in areas in the region expected to be affected by flooding, landslides and storm surges during the expected landfall of typhoon Bopha, to be locally called “Pablo” in the Philippines.
Floods brought about by nonstop rains in Bicol over the weekend claimed the life of an 18-year-old girl in Camarines Sur on Sunday and displaced over 3,500 people in Albay.
