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| Subject: Philippine statists fuck-up again: Typhoon survivors plunder food as they await delayed promised aid Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:05 pm | |
| HUNGRY survivors of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have raided shops and warehouses after aid deliveries were delayed.
Officials monitored the desperate scenes in the aftermath of typhoon Bopha's onslaught in the isolated southern town of Cateel, a provincial official, Cedric Daep, said.
''The food aid took so long to arrive that the locals broke into whatever building was left standing in search of something to eat,'' said Daep, who was sent to the devastated south by the government to help rescue and relief operations.
The typhoon killed more than 500 people and left hundreds missing across the south. About 393,000 people are said to be living in evacuation centres or receiving some other form of government assistance. Advertisement
Warehouses and grocery stores were broken into in Cateel, a coastal town near where the eye of the typhoon made landfall on Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/typhoon-survivors-plunder-food-as-they-await-aid-20121208-2b290.html#ixzz2EW4qBS7c
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