MADAyuMadyan - Mangsa
super taufan Haiyan sedang dipindahkan dari kawasan yang musnah sebagai bantuan
mula tuangkan ke Filipina. Dianggarkan 10,000 orang dianggap telah mati pada ribut yang mengoyakkan melalui kawasan pusat negara pulau itu -
tetapi pekerja penye-lamat bergelut untuk mencapai perkampungan pantai jauh.
Bandar
Tacloban nampaknya telah dilahirkan beban angin 300 kilometer sejam dan ribut
besar mendadak - sehingga 80 peratus daripada segala-galanya dalam laluan
Haiyan telah dimusnahkan. Beribu-ribu telah dipindahkan dan berjuta-juta
terjejas oleh salah satu daripada ribut yang paling teruk di DUNIA. Dengan
tidak ada air, makanan, ubat-ubatan atau perlindungan keperluan terdesak.
Semua
orang dari yang lama kepada yang muda kini bergelut untuk terus hidup. Tetapi
bantuan mula tiba dari tindak balas antarabangsa yang cepat bersiap ke dalam
tindakan. Penghantaran selimut dan alas adalah antara keperluan pertama yang
dihantar dari Malaysia dan Jerman.
Aid pours into the
Philippines but remote villages
are yet to be reached . . .
Survivors
of super typhoon Haiyan are being evacuated from devastated areas as aid begins
to pour into the Philippines. An estimated 10,000 people are thought to have
died in the storm which tore through the island nation's central region - but
rescue workers are struggling to reach remote coastal villages.
The
city of Tacloban appears to have born the brunt of the 300 kph winds and
massive storm surges - up to 80 percent of everything in Haiyan's path was
destroyed. Thousands have been displaced and millions affected by one of the
world's worst storms. With no water, food, medicines or shelter the need is
desperate.
Everyone from the old to
the very young is now struggling to survive. But aid is beginning to arrive
from an international response which is quickly gearing into action. Shipments
of blankets and tarpaulins are among the first necessities being sent from
Malaysia and Germany.
Filipina perjuangan
untuk menghantar bantuan
selepas Typhoon Haiyan . . .
MADAyuMadyan - Pihak
berkuasa di Filipina telah memulakan usaha besar-besaran untuk mengedarkan
bantuan kepada mangsa taufan super Haiyan . Adalah dipercayai salah satu
daripada ribut yang paling kuat yang pernah direkodkan telah membunuh
sekurang-kurangnya 10,000 orang dalam satu bandar sahaja.
Tacloban
, sebuah bandar pantai tenggara Manila, menanggung beban dengan kampung-kampung
sejauh satu kilometer dari pantai banjir. Kebanyakan kematian kelihatan telah
disebabkan oleh air laut bergelombang berselerak dengan serpihan yang banyak
berkata menyerupai tsunami.
"Orang
ramai berjalan seperti zombi mencari makanan," kata Jenny Chu, seorang
pelajar perubatan di wilayah Leyte. "Ia seperti filem. " Skala
kemusnahan dahsyat taufan itu kini mula muncul. Kuat, angin berterusan melebihi
300 kilometer sejam, meratakan pekan keseluruhan.
Agensi-agensi
bantuan antarabangsa mengatakan mereka menghulurkan kepada had dan telah
dipanggil untuk makanan, air, ubat-ubatan dan alas bagi yang tiada tempat
tinggal. Pelbagai negara dan Kesatuan Eropah menghantar peralatan pakar dan
pekerja penye-lamat untuk membantu usaha bantuan dan mencari beribu-ribu orang
hilang.
Philippines struggles to
deliver aid after Typhoon Haiyan
Authorities
in the Philippines have begun a massive effort to distribute aid to survivors
of super typhoon Haiyan. It is believed one of the most powerful storms ever
recorded has killed at least 10,000 people in one city alone.
Tacloban,
a coastal city southeast of Manila, bore the brunt with villages as far as one
kilometre from the shore flooded. Most of the deaths appear to have been caused
by surging sea water strewn with debris that many said resembled a tsunami.
"People
are walking like zombies looking for food," said Jenny Chu, a medical
student in Leyte province. "It's like a movie." The scale of the
typhoon's apocalyptic destruction is now starting to emerge. Strong, sustained
winds exceeded 300 kilometres per hour, levelling entire towns.
International aid agencies
say they are stretched to the limit and have called for food, water, medicines
and tarpaulins for the homeless. A host of countries and the European Union are
sending specialist equipment and rescue workers to help the relief effort and
search for thousands of missing people.
