Philippines: Year of Disasters
Sunday, February 19th, 2006 | 4:17 pm @ SK
Filipinos couldn’t agree more that 2006 is a Year of Disaster to Philippines.
On Feb 4, seventy-four people, most of them elderly women, were killed while more than 200 others were injured when a stampede marred the first anniversary of the ABS-CBN noontime television game show "Wowowee" at the Philippine Sports Commission stadium in Pasig City.
Last Friday morning, another tragegy struck the entire nation. Following a major landslide in the central Philippines, an entire village of 1800 people are fear dead and few are thoughts to remain alive amid the mud.
(SOURCE: BBC, 17 February 2006)
At least 117 people have so far been rescued as rescuers continue to battle against time to find more survivors amid the muck. Teams now holding little hopes of finding any more survivors and the focus is now on retriving bodies and helping survivors.
Accordingly, weather was the prime target for blame, but survivors were also pointing to illegal logging as a contributing factor.
Click here for a string of pictures hosted by BBC, death or alive, we in Malaysia pray for them.