From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Dec 8): US forces asked to help search for missing `Pablo’
victims
US forces operating in the country under the Joint US Military Advisory Group
(Jusmag) along with six, or about half of the Philippine Air Force’s helicopter
inventory, have been tapped to speed up the search for hundreds of people still
missing in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental in the wake of Typhoon Pablo.
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said the President also ordered the deployment
of more K-9 teams of sniffer dogs to the disaster areas and to ensure the speedy
delivery of relief goods to the survivors.
The repositioning of forces for the search and retrieval operations was
ordered after Mr. Aquino admitted he was disappointed that nobody could tell him
if someone had contacted communities isolated from the main towns. The national disaster response office said it has recorded 383 missing
persons, 439 dead and 445 injured in the two affected provinces.
The President has designated Eastern Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. George
Segovia overall coordinator of the operations. Segovia’s team was asked to
submit a periodic report or mission progress report. “I want to see the movement towards completing the search-and-rescue
operations,” Mr. Aquino said during a briefing for reporters in Davao City after
he visited the disaster areas on Thursday.....
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/320909/us-forces-asked-to-help-search-for-missing-pablo-victims
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