11-12-2013, 09:51 AM
Thank you SteveO ~!~
We are compiling a list of needed items for the survivors of this catastrophe.
Everyones ideas and suggestions are needed and most welcome.
Currently no new information or ability to communicate with the still isolated
areas of Leyte and Eastern Samar.
Once we establish communications we will define the most needed supplies.
We can assume many, but we want to get an accurate pulse for the most critical
items.
We have also looked a multiple survival kit links to help refine our endeavor
to be mindful of survival needs.
Rudie & Lilian
Current local time 5:50ish p.m.
Two killed as Yolanda relief convoy ambushed enroute to Tacloban; military blames NPA
By: Agence France-Presse
November 12, 2013 5:21 PM
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/74666...blames-npa
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
TACLOBAN - Soldiers killed two armed insurgents who attacked an aid convoy en route to typhoon-devastated Tacloban on Tuesday, the military said, as soldiers were deployed to quell looting by hungry survivors.
Some of that aid fell victim to one of the Philippines' long-running insurgencies when 15 communist rebels ambushed trucks on their way to the storm-wracked region, a local commander told AFP.
"There were no casualties on the government side," Lieutenant Colonel Joselito Kakilala said, adding that two members of the New People's Army, the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, were killed and another wounded in the clash in Matnog town, some 240 kilometres (150 miles) from Tacloban.
In the city itself, a curfew was in force as armoured vehicles and elite security forces patrolled streets where famished survivors had raided stores and ransacked other aid convoys.
Hundreds of soldiers and police were in evidence around the city, the capital of the provincial island of Leyte, which bore the brunt of Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record.
Tacloban -- a city of 220,000 residents -- has been the scene of the worst pillaging. Survivors reported gangs stealing consumer goods including televisions and washing machines from small businesses.
We are compiling a list of needed items for the survivors of this catastrophe.
Everyones ideas and suggestions are needed and most welcome.
Currently no new information or ability to communicate with the still isolated
areas of Leyte and Eastern Samar.
Once we establish communications we will define the most needed supplies.
We can assume many, but we want to get an accurate pulse for the most critical
items.
We have also looked a multiple survival kit links to help refine our endeavor
to be mindful of survival needs.
Rudie & Lilian
Current local time 5:50ish p.m.
Two killed as Yolanda relief convoy ambushed enroute to Tacloban; military blames NPA
By: Agence France-Presse
November 12, 2013 5:21 PM
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/74666...blames-npa
InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
TACLOBAN - Soldiers killed two armed insurgents who attacked an aid convoy en route to typhoon-devastated Tacloban on Tuesday, the military said, as soldiers were deployed to quell looting by hungry survivors.
Some of that aid fell victim to one of the Philippines' long-running insurgencies when 15 communist rebels ambushed trucks on their way to the storm-wracked region, a local commander told AFP.
"There were no casualties on the government side," Lieutenant Colonel Joselito Kakilala said, adding that two members of the New People's Army, the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, were killed and another wounded in the clash in Matnog town, some 240 kilometres (150 miles) from Tacloban.
In the city itself, a curfew was in force as armoured vehicles and elite security forces patrolled streets where famished survivors had raided stores and ransacked other aid convoys.
Hundreds of soldiers and police were in evidence around the city, the capital of the provincial island of Leyte, which bore the brunt of Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record.
Tacloban -- a city of 220,000 residents -- has been the scene of the worst pillaging. Survivors reported gangs stealing consumer goods including televisions and washing machines from small businesses.