10 Ribu Orang Diperkirakan Tewas di Filipina Tengah
At Least 10,000 People Dead in the Central Philippine
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Tacloban (B2B) - Kemungkinan 10 ribu orang meninggal di Provinsi Leyte, Filipina Tengah, akibat topan super Haiyan, kata pihak berwenang. Kota-kota di pesisir provinsi itu porak-poranda dihantam gelombang laut yang tinggi.
Topan super Haiyan merusak sekitar 70% sampai 80% daerah yang dilalui di provinsi itu sejak Jumat, kata Kepala Polisi Inspektur Elmer Soria.
Kebanyakan korban meninggal terjadi akibat terjangan air laut yang membawa puing-puing, menghancurkan rumah, dan menenggelamkan orang-orang.
"Kami mengadakan pertemuan tadi malam bersama para petugas dari beberapa instasi. Gubernur mengatakan, berdasarkan perkiraan, sekitar 10.000 korban yang meninggal," kata Soria, seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Tacloban - At least 10,000 people died in the central Philippine province of Leyte after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, lashed the province, swallowing coastal towns, a senior police official said on Sunday.
About 70 to 80 percent of the area in the path of Haiyan in Leyte province was destroyed, said Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria.
"We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials. The governor said based on their estimate, 10,000 died," Soria told.
