From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 15):
Navy transports 2,500 Tacloban evacuees to Cebu
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Friday announced that one of its logistic
vessels, the BRP Dagupan
City (LC-551), is now enroute to Cebu City
with 2,500 evacuees from "Yolanda" ravaged Tacloban City.
The ship left the Tacloban City Pier around 12: 05 p.m. Thursday and is
expected to arrive in
Cebu
City by 1:00 p.m. Friday.
Upon arrival in
Cebu
City, the evacuees will
then be processed, fed, treated and housed by the Department of Social Welfare
and Development and other relief agencies, Navy spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Gregory
Fabic said.
He added that the
BRP
Bacolod City
(LC-550), which is docked at the Tacloban City Pier, will also transport a
similar number of evacuees once it had finished unloading relief goods and
other cargoes Friday.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=587010
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