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Calamity in the Philippines Strikes Again |
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Yesterday on my way back from my Marseille I keep on hearing news about a certain landslide that hit the Philippines. I didn’t believed it at first but eventually felt that it could be something big because they don’t stop from talking about it during the entire trip. When I arrived back home, the first thing I did was to check the Philippine online newspaper that I normally read, and there I found the news by myself. It shocked me.
The incident happened early morning in the villages of Saint Bernard in the island of Leyte. (My auntie in fact hails from this province). Almost 3,000 families lost their houses, schools were buried and still more than 1,500 people are still missing fearing to be dead after being covered by a rushing mudslide. A heavy rainfall (5 times stronger than the usual for this season) is being accused as the culprit. Leyte is in fact one of the poorest provinces we have in the Philippines, majority of whom is either a farmer or a fisherman. It is sad that something like this would happen in an area where schools and facilities are already in big scarcity and now even worse they’ve been destroyed. There were even reports claiming that were hundreds of children that died when the landslide covered an entire school.
Rescue operations in my country always seem to be very slow (pick and shovel) because of the absence of efficient and state of the art facilities. I bet we don’t even have the appropriate training facing this kind of calamities. But I guess the good side about it there were already some countries who extended their assistance to our government like Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and USA (I wonder were are the French) In tragedies like these and when you have other people sympathizing and extending out their hand to help makes bearing the pain a little bit less heavily.
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