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March 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Typhoon hits Philippines
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Typhoon Washi victims take a bath using water from a broken pipe in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro in southern Philippines December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
People walk among logs and debris washed ashore four days after Typhoon Washi hit a village in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. Philippine President Benigno Aquino declared on Tuesday a state of national calamity after flash floods and land slides caused by a typhoon swept through a southern region late last week, killing about 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Philippine Navy soldiers load hundreds of caskets, to be transported to Cagayan De Oro city, onto a navy ship which docked in Manila December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)
Residents search for their missing relatives beside a funeral parlour next to a road near Iligan city in southern Philippines December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
A man gathers wood amidst logs and debris washed ashore four days after Typhoon Washi hit a village in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
A typhoon victim rests with her pet dog in an evacuation centre in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Children play inside an evacuation centre for flood-stricken victims outside Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Unidentified typhoon victims, inside coffins and body bags, lie near a road awaiting identification by their relatives near Iligan city in southern Philippines December 20, 2011. Philippine President Benigno Aquino declared on Tuesday a state of national calamity after flash floods and land slides caused by a typhoon swept through a southern region late last week, killing about 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Philippine Navy soldiers load coffins, to be transported to Cagayan De Oro city, onto a navy ship which docked in Manila December 20, 2011. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)
A typhoon victim receives a pack of relief goods from Philippine President Benigno Aquino in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. Aquino declared on Tuesday a state of national calamity after flash floods and land slides caused by a typhoon swept through a southern region late last week, killing about 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Residents search for their relatives, missing typhoon victims, in a funeral parlour near Iligan city, southern Philippines December 20, 2011. Philippine President Benigno Aquino declared on Tuesday a state of national calamity after flash floods and land slides caused by a typhoon swept through a southern region late last week, killing about 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)
Damaged vehicles washed away by flash floods brought forth by Typhoon Washi lie in a ditch in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro, in southern Philippines December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after a typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90km/h (56 mph), hit the resource-rich island of Mindanao late Friday, bringing heavy rain that also grounded some domestic flights and left wide areas without power. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Residents board a truck heading to an evacuation centre after their houses in Balulang village were swept by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Residents rest in an evacuation centre after their houses were washed away by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Philippine National Police (PNP) rescuers use a rubber boat to evacuate a resident after flash floods brought by Typhoon Washi (Sendong) hit Macasandig town, Cagayan De Oro city, southern Philippines December 17, 2011. A typhoon hit the southern Philippines triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday. Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90km/h (56 mph), hit the resource-rich island of Mindanao late on Friday, bringing heavy rain that also grounded some domestic flights and left wide areas without power. REUTERS/Stringer
A vehicle washed away by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi lies outside down in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro in southern Philippines December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Residents recover their hogs in Balulang village after the village was hit by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Residents gather at a makeshift shelter after their houses were swept away by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
A general view shows a village hit by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro in southern Philippines December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Government workers stand in front of a bridge damaged by flash floods brought by Typhoon Washi (Sendong) in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 17, 2011. A typhoon hit the southern Philippines triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday. Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90km/h (56 mph), hit the resource-rich island of Mindanao late on Friday, bringing heavy rain that also grounded some domestic flights and left wide areas without power. REUTERS/Stringer
Residents walk past trucks swept away by flash floods due to heavy rains brought by Typhoon Washi, known locally as Sendong, in Iligan city, southern Philippines December 17, 2011. The typhoon hit the southern Philippines triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/Stringer
An aerial view shows villages inundated in floodwaters caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Damaged vehicles swept away by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi lie in a ditch in Balulang village in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
A boy fetches water from a broken pipe among destroyed houses along a road in a village hit by flashfloods caused by typhoon Washi in Cagayan de Oro, southern Philippines, December 17, 2011. More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after the typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday, triggering flash floods and landslides and forcing tens of thousands from their homes. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Soldiers carry a wounded resident into a truck after flash floods brought by Typhoon Washi (Sendong) hit Macasandig town, Cagayan De Oro city, southern Philippines December 17, 2011. A typhoon hit the southern Philippines triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday. Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting up to 90km/h (56 mph), hit the resource-rich island of Mindanao late on Friday, bringing heavy rain that also grounded some domestic flights and left wide areas without power. REUTERS/Stringer
ILIGAN, PHILIPPINES –
Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered an investigation on Tuesday into flash floods and landslides that sent mud and logs crashing down on residents, killing about 1,000 people on a southern island.
The national disaster agency said 957 were killed and 49 missing on Mindanao after Typhoon Washi triggered the slides. Most of the casualties were in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan and tens of thousands remain homeless, many sheltering in evacuation centres.
Aquino met officials in the two cities worst hit by the cascades that swept down mountainsides as residents of riverside and coastal villages slept in the early hours of Saturday.
“First priority is to relocate to areas that no longer pose a danger to them,” Aquino told a meeting in Cagayan de Oro, issuing instructions to implement disaster mitigation programmes, including reforestation.
He later told a gathering at a school: “We have no desire to engage in finger-pointing or to assign blame at a time like this. Yet, we have an obligation to find out exactly what has happened.”
Aquino said he had formed a task force to investigate the reasons behind the disaster and to determine whether a nationwide logging ban had been violated.
He declared a state of national calamity, a move intended to release greater funding, and ordered the speedy restoration of power and drinking water supplies in all affected villages.
“If we want this tragedy to be the last of its kind, we need to learn from our mistakes,” he said.
NATIONAL CALAMITY
The disaster agency said more than 338,000 people in 13 provinces were affected by the disaster, with nearly 43,000 still in schools, churches and gymnasiums.
More than 10,000 houses were damaged by the typhoon and the flash floods, of which nearly a third were ruined. Many schools, roads and bridges were also badly damaged.
More than 15 million pesos ($340,000) worth of crops, mostly rice and corn, were damaged, but the Agriculture department said losses were minimal as the crops were in the early planting stage.
Aquino said the government can also access funds from multilateral financial institutions, including $3 million from the Asian Development Bank and about $500 million in low-interest loans from the World Bank.
Survivors said huge logs thundering down mountainsides crushed residents. Television footage showed many recovered bodies with arms or hands raised as if reaching out for help or clinging on to something.
Cagayan de Oro and Iligan were struggling to prevent disease from spreading in evacuation centres, with construction proceeding quickly of burial vaults and plots in public cemeteries to bury decomposing bodies.
Iligan has started burying truckloads of bodies, with some family members or residents of the same villages entombed in a single sepulchre. A Reuters photographer saw bodies lined up along the highway in Cagayan de Oro outside a small funeral home.
An official of the British-based Christian relief and development organization World Vision said people were fighting for space at evacuation centres.
“It is really overcrowded, there is almost no space in between people,“ group official John Salva told ANC Television. “Diseases are starting to appear.“
“It’s really a struggle to manage those evacuation centres, there’s a shortage of water and a shortage of food,“ he said.
The state-run Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said it had warned authorities in the area last year about the need to relocate families living along riverbanks that swelled after one month’s worth of rainfall fell over the weekend.
“This tragedy that happened in Cagayan de Oro … will be repeated in the future. And therefore, there needs to be appropriate preparation to prevent fatalities,“ Leo Jasareno, acting director of the MGB said in a television interview.
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