Wednesday, February 2, 2011

BUTUAN CITY '90% UNDER WATER'


by Stanley Palisada, ABS-CBN News
butuanMANILA, Philippines- Temporary shelters in Butuan City are becoming filled to the brim with the latest wave of evacuations Tuesday night.

Residents whose homes have been inundated have cramped in classrooms where as much as a hundred families are forced to seek refuge. Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand Amante told national disaster officials that their city is now 90% underwater.
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