Red Cross relief supplies for Leyte Island

Описание: (18 Feb 2006)
1. Red Cross staff waiting at the back of C-130 Philippine airforce plane
2. Red Cross staff going inside C-130 plane
3. Search and rescue group going inside C-130 plane
4. Emergency relief supplies inside C-130 plane
5. Various of soldiers carrying body bags with lime inside
6. Lime sacks being placed inside body bags
7. Soldiers carrying body bags with lime inside
8. Soldiers and rescue workers carrying folded body bags
9. Soldiers passing relief supply boxes to be loaded onto C-130 plane
10. Soldiers loading relief supply boxes onto C-130 plane
STORYLINE:
Two Philippine airforce C-130 cargo planes loaded with emergency relief supplies flew out of Manila early Saturday.
The supplies were destined for rescue and recovery operations around the village of Guinsaugon, on the central Philippine island of Leyte, where a landslide on Friday left as many as 1,800 people dead.
Red cross volunteers and health department staff were also flown in with the food and medical supplies, tents, blankets, rubber boats and body bags.
But rescue workers in Guinsaugon on Saturday held little hope of finding more survivors from the mudslide, adding that the farming village had been swallowed whole by a wall of mud and boulders.
Lieutenant Colonel Raul Farnacio, the highest-ranking military officer at the scene of Friday's disaster, estimated the death toll to be around 1,800 - nearly every man, woman and child who lived in Guinsaugon. He counted 57 survivors from a population of 1,857.
The search efforts that resumed Saturday got underway in drenching rain and high winds that made the task even more miserable.
Searchers focussed on an elementary school, after unconfirmed reports that relatives of the 250 children and teachers had received cell phone text messages from survivors there.
Soldiers were being shuttled to the disaster zone in the shovels of bulldozers that carried them across a shallow stream.
The mud was estimated to be 10 meters (30 feet) deep at some points.
Keyword-disaster - landslide

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