Philippines: 8 dead during the Looting of Rice Warehouse
Eight people were killed when the wall of a rice warehouse being looted by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan Philippines, collapsed, said Wednesday the spokesman of the National Food Authority .
"A wall of our warehouse collapsed and eight people were crushed and killed instantly" Alangalang Tuesday on the island of Leyte, one of the most affected by the disaster, said Rex Estoperez.
Police and soldiers guarding the site that belongs to the government agency, but they were overwhelmed by the crowd who stole more than 100,000 bags of rice, has he added.
"It was really a lot of people to take as many bags," said he again noted, adding that a bag weighed 50 pounds.
"Our staff was there, but they could do nothing without the risk of endangering themselves."
Five days after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful ever to landfall, with winds over 300 km / h waves more than five meters, the survivors of the worst affected areas lack water and electricity.
While aid comes in dribs and drabs, some of them, hungry, armed themselves to loot buildings still standing in search of food.
A situation that has particularly grown in recent days the authorities to impose a curfew and deployed hundreds of soldiers in Tacloban, Leyte capital, 17 kilometers from the rice warehouse raided Tuesday.
The UN fears that 10,000 people were killed in one of Tacloban City.
"A wall of our warehouse collapsed and eight people were crushed and killed instantly" Alangalang Tuesday on the island of Leyte, one of the most affected by the disaster, said Rex Estoperez.
Police and soldiers guarding the site that belongs to the government agency, but they were overwhelmed by the crowd who stole more than 100,000 bags of rice, has he added.
"It was really a lot of people to take as many bags," said he again noted, adding that a bag weighed 50 pounds.
"Our staff was there, but they could do nothing without the risk of endangering themselves."
Five days after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful ever to landfall, with winds over 300 km / h waves more than five meters, the survivors of the worst affected areas lack water and electricity.
While aid comes in dribs and drabs, some of them, hungry, armed themselves to loot buildings still standing in search of food.
A situation that has particularly grown in recent days the authorities to impose a curfew and deployed hundreds of soldiers in Tacloban, Leyte capital, 17 kilometers from the rice warehouse raided Tuesday.
The UN fears that 10,000 people were killed in one of Tacloban City.
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