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Without typhoon aid, there will be looting: Philippine guv
Updated On: 22 December, 2021 08:20 AM IST | Manila | Agencies
The most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippine archipelago this year left at least 375 dead and 50 others missing mostly in its central region, including nearly 100 dead in Bohol, according to officials
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Damaged homes after Typhoon Rai lie along a coastal village in Surigao City on Monday. Pic/AP
The governor of a central Philippine province devastated by Typhoon Rai last week pleaded on radio Tuesday for the government to quickly send food and aid, warning that without outside help, army troops and police forces would have to be deployed to prevent looting amid growing hunger.
Governor Arthur Yap of Bohol province said he could no longer secure rice and other food aid after his contingency fund ran out and added many of the 1.2 million people in his island province, which remained without power and cellphone service five days after the typhoon, have become desperate. The most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippine archipelago this year left at least 375 dead and 50 others missing mostly in its central region, including nearly 100 dead in Bohol, according to officials.
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