More than three months have passed since Yolanda devastated the city but authorities continued to recover more dead bodies from different areas in Tacloban.
In the recently concluded Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) Meeting held at Leyte Sports Development Center, in this city, Task Force Cadaver headed by Senior Superintendent Pablito Cordera of the Bureau of Fire Protection in the region has reported that 30 dead bodies were recovered by the team from February 4 until February 17, 2014 in different places in the city.
Most of the cadavers were retrieved in San Jose District, one of the coastal barangays hardly hit by the storm surges.
Eleven(11) of the cadavers were found on February 4. 2014, One(1) in February 6, Two (2) in February 8, five(5) in February 11, three(3) in February 13 and eight(8) were retrieved in february 17. All of these were brought to the grave site at Holy Cross Cemetery.
This brings to a total of 2, 622 cadavers recovered by the task force since November 16, 2013 until February 18, this year.
The task force cadaver comprises personnel from the Philippine National Police, National Bureau of Investigation, City Government of Tacloban, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Department of Health and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) which is the lead agency.
Thursday 20 February 2014
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