MMDA rescue teams recover 17 more bodies in Comval

The Philippine Star

December 13, 2012 | 9:36am

The two elite rescue teams of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority on Thursday recovered 17 more bodies from a community in Compostela Valley devastated by typhoon Pablo.

The cadavers were retrieved by the MMDA search and and retrieval teams in Purok 7, New Bataan,Compostela Valley past 7 a.m. , according to a radio report.

The recovery of bodies brings the total body count recovered by the MMDA rescue teams to 50, the report added.

The MMDA rescue units were dispatched to Compostela Valley this week to help in the search and retrieval operations by government agencies in the Pablo-hit provinces in Mindanao. - Dennis Carcamo

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