Philippine town seeks immediate airlift of food to ease hunger in quake-hit villages
Victor James Yap said 10 of 31 villages remain inaccessible and food deliveries are needed as more than 45,000 people stay displaced.
- On Thursday, Glan Mayor Victor James Yap pleaded for air force helicopters to deliver food to 10 isolated villages in his town of more than 100,000 people, where landslides have blocked access.
- Monday's 7.8 magnitude offshore earthquake struck off the southern province of Sarangani, leaving at least 47 people dead and 688 injured, with Sarangani reporting 20 dead—the highest provincial toll.
- More than 45,000 people remain displaced, with about half in emergency shelters, after the quake damaged more than 12,600 houses in farming towns and cities across the region.
- While a key access road reopened Thursday allowing fuel delivery, Yap noted power remains out and cellphone services are spotty, hampering relief to survivors still too traumatized to return home.
- The Philippines is often hit by earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of seismic faults where this week's event ranks as one of the strongest in half a century.
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Mayor pleads for food, aid for ravaged town
GENERAL SANTOS — The mayor of the coastal town of Glan, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake, pleaded on Thursday for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages.The 7.8-magnitude offshore quake, one of the strongest to hit the Philippine archipelago in a half century, struck Monday off the southern province of Sarangani and has left at least 47 people dead and injured 688 with 31 still missi…
Philippine town seeks immediate airlift of food to quake-hit villages
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines: The mayor of a southern Philippine town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded Thursday (June 10) for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages.
Philippine town seeks immediate airlift of food to ease hunger in
GENERAL SANTOS: The mayor of a southern Philippine town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded Thursday for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages. The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, one of the strongest to hit the Philippine archipelago in a half century, struck Monday off the southern province of Sarangani and
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