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"Milenyo" deaths reach 62; 61,000 families displaced
By The Mouse Potato | October 2, 2006
Officials said Saturday the toll from typhoon Milenyo (international codename Xangsane) had risen to 62 dead, 69 missing and over 200 injured as relief efforts struggled to cope with the worst storm to hit Metro Manila in a decade.
Anthony Gonzales, National Disaster Coordinating Council acting administrator, said most of the deaths were reported in Quezon province with 26 fatalities, followed by Los Baños, Laguna with 14.
Several casualties were also reported in central and southern Luzon, Metro Manila and parts of the Visayas, which were hit by the typhoon.
The National Disaster Coordinating Center also reported 61,076 families affected by the storm and 15,071 houses either damaged or destroyed.
A flash flood had also killed a further 21 people and left seven missing in Cavite, according to the governor, Irineo Malicsi.
But the civil defense office had yet to confirm these deaths in official figures.
Millions of people were still without electricity two days after the typhoon pounded the country, ripping up trees and causing flash floods and landslides. It was headed Saturday for Vietnam.
A small yacht, the MY Tristar, earlier reported to be missing, was found to have gone down in rough waters on Thursday. The Coast Guard said it had rescued five of the crew with one still missing.
More than 90,000 people remained unable to return to their homes due to continued flooding and threats of landslides from hills that had been saturated by the heavy rains, the civil defense office added.
Repair crews helped by the military worked through the night to clear roads and restore power lines after the storm knocked down hundreds of trees, electrical posts and billboards.
Traffic in many parts of the city was snarled by the fallen debris.
None of the country’s power plants had been damaged by the storm but the problem of repairing fallen lines was huge, said National Transmission Corp. vice-president Jesusito Sulit.
Millions remained without power in Luzon. On the Bicol peninsula at Luzon’s southernmost tip, which bore the brunt of the storm, only about five percent of electrical service had returned, he said.
Elpi Cuna, spokesman for the country’s main power supplier Meralco, could not say when full supplies would resume in the capital.
“There are many fallen trees that have knocked down lines,” he said.
Schools and financial markets were shut for two days after the storm, which had maximum winds of 130 kilometers (81 miles) per hour.
Vietnam was on Saturday bracing for Milenyo. Officials there said they were trying to evacuate more than 150,000 people from high risk areas. With a report from The Manila Times
source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=51839
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