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Stuart G

(38,421 posts)
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 08:14 AM Dec 2011

Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/philippines-floods-2011-bodies_n_1169671.html

MANILA, Philippines — Fishermen joined Philippine navy sailors, police and firefighters in an ever wider search for bodies from entire villages swept away in one of the country's worst flash floods. More bodies have washed ashore, pushing the death toll to more than 1,200, an official said Monday.

While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages spent a miserable Christmas in jam-packed schools and gymnasiums, search teams retrieved an additional 150 bodies from the sea as far as 60 miles (100 kilometers) from worst-hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, said Benito Ramos, head of the Office of Civil Defense.

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Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline (Original Post) Stuart G Dec 2011 OP
Wait, crap, again? boppers Dec 2011 #1
Illegal logging now found to be the biggest cause txlibdem Dec 2011 #2
I just emailed a link from Yahoo to a friend SHRED Dec 2011 #3
Societal Collapse prepperdad Dec 2011 #4

txlibdem

(6,183 posts)
2. Illegal logging now found to be the biggest cause
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 09:30 AM
Dec 2011

Rec to spread info about this tragedy.

To donate to help the survivors and families devastated by this disaster:
http://www.abscbnfoundation.org/

 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
3. I just emailed a link from Yahoo to a friend
Mon Dec 26, 2011, 12:02 PM
Dec 2011


And here is what the auto-titled email looked like:

"More bodies found far away from Philippine floods - Yahoo!"

This is when the auto-advertising is in poor taste.
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