Decomposing Bodies Pile Up; Casualties Hit 823

[Mr Lee]

‘WE LOST COUNT OF MISSING PEOPLE’ — NDRRMC CHIEF12/20/2011As the body count rose to 823 late yesterday, authorities expect that the casualties from flash floods that devastated two port cities in Mindanao spawned by Typhoon Sendong will continue to pile up in the coming days as officials said more are missing than reported since entire families were believed swept to sea as they slept in coastal slums.Towns in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities which were worst hit by the devastation prepared mass burials for decomposing bodies with authorities saying unclaimed cadavers piling up in mortuaries were posing health risks and had to be buried.Several television footage showed decomposing bodies lined up in different centers where the dead were delivered for identification, underlining the serious tragedy that some of the survivors compared to the recent tsunami that hit parts of northern Japan last March. One footage from an Iligan mortuary showed acorridor lined with bodies wrapped in white plastic bags bound with tan-colored packaging tape.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported Monday afternoon that bodies of 823victims were thus far recoveredWe lack everything With no clean water, electricity, food and shelter, residents of flood-hit areas in Mindanao are grappling with a humanitarian crisis.“We lack everything,” Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano told The STAR yesterday. “We don’t have electricity and drinking water. We are now appealing for bottled drinking water, food and medicine and relief goods.” Edited December 19, 2011 by Mr. Lee

[Jollygoodfellow]

There appears to be quite a few aid agencies involved now so hopefully some relief for the victims. This story below shows how some Charity organisations already have supply's in storage for such disasters.

There are over 500 ShelterBoxes in the Philippine city of Clark, a charity spokesperson added.Each box contains a 10-person tent, blankets, water purification and cooking equipment, tools, a stove and other essential survival equipment.

More http://www.bbc.co.uk...rnwall-16257303Also google set up a people finder to help those looking, I guess it will only help those outside the area looking for information on family.http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/19/google-person-finder-philippines-typhoon-sendong-victims/

[Garpo]

I hope that we can trust that the help packages will actually get to the victims that need them.

[Call me bubba]

I Have read in another paper that the "bodies" was taken to the LANDFILL/Garbage Dump. so they could identify them, ,so then they could be buried elsewhere.Is this how a "society" treats its people? I say no more as this is REALLY Offensive of how "the powers to be" treat the dead

[Jake]

I Have read in another paper that the "bodies" was taken to the LANDFILL/Garbage Dump.so they could identify them, ,so then they could be buried elsewhere.Is this how a "society" treats its people?I say no more as this is REALLY Offensive of how "the powers to be" treat the dead

As with any 3rd world countries where population explosion and poverty feed each other likeravenous parasites, life is so damn cheap and death is often times treated as a salvation toa better life. Even the rat population of these countries have better standards of living.Respectfully -- Jake

[Jollygoodfellow]

I Have read in another paper that the "bodies" was taken to the LANDFILL/Garbage Dump.so they could identify them, ,so then they could be buried elsewhere.Is this how a "society" treats its people?I say no more as this is REALLY Offensive of how "the powers to be" treat the dead

Hmmm is that the words the paper used? I have not read any reference to this anywhere except that bodies were going to be buried but identified first with photos and tags etc before a mass burial because of the risk of diseases and just a overwhelming number of bodies and many unclaimed.Maybe the dump had the best facility's or open land or disease control for this enormous task. Rather than jump to conclusions maybe best to get a grip on what life is like there at ground zero just now. We can sit in the comfort of our arm chairs and say this and that but unless anyone is actually experiencing the hell going on; in my opinion wont know the the reality of it all.

[Call me bubba]

I Have read in another paper that the "bodies" was taken to the LANDFILL/Garbage Dump.so they could identify them, ,so then they could be buried elsewhere.Is this how a "society" treats its people?I say no more as this is REALLY Offensive of how "the powers to be" treat the dead

Hmmm is that the words the paper used? I have not read any reference to this anywhere except that bodies were going to be buried but identified first with photos and tags etc before a mass burial because of the risk of diseases and just a overwhelming number of bodies and many unclaimed.Maybe the dump had the best facility's or open land or disease control for this enormous task. Rather than jump to conclusions maybe best to get a grip on what life is like there at ground zero just now. We can sit in the comfort of our arm chairs and say this and that but unless anyone is actually experiencing the hell going on; in my opinion wont know the the reality of it all.

AFTER the controversial “dumping” of dead bodies at the landfill in Zayas, Barangay Carmen, forensic experts from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are now conducting the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) at the hangar of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Barangay Lumbia. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2011/12/22/forensic-exams-transferred-landfill-hangar-197217

[Mr Lee]

Sendong’ death toll may reach 3,000It’s going to be “Silent Night” on Christmas Eve for thousands of people who lost their loved ones in the worst storm to hit the country this year.Many households in the flood-ravaged cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan are grieving. There will be no fireworks, not even firecrackers there. Instead, candles will be lit in houses where power has yet to be restored, and in funeral wakes.For the first time since Tropical Storm “Sendong” struck on Dec. 16, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) admitted that the missing may be more than the 49 reported to President Aquino on his trip to the disaster zone on Tuesday—four days after the storm struck.The fear is that the death toll may top 3,000.On Friday, the NDRRMC put the number of missing at 1,979 and the confirmed death toll at 1,080.

[Jungle]

I heard the other day that there was a mass grave done in CDO.

[Jollygoodfellow]

I heard the other day that there was a mass grave done in CDO.

That's correct as there is no where to store so many body's. There is some sort of system in place to identify the deceased for later retrieval​if someone claims them but I doubt if many will as whole family's are wiped out.The bodies they are still finding in the sea are badly decomposed.