TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Nov. 24 (PNA) –A Mass in memory of people who lost their lives from super typhoon “Yolanda” two weeks ago was held at a gravesite here Sunday morning.
Capt. Elmer Basas of the Army’s 8th Infantry Division presided over the Mass at a gravesite in Barangay Suhi.
Members of Task Force Yolanda attended the Mass, where Basas blessed the uninterred remains afterward.
Ruel Pedrosa, a caretaker at the site, said there may be as many as 700 remains at the site, 400 of them not yet buried.
He said many go to the site to see if some of the remains there were those of their relatives.
Tacloban was among the hardest-hit areas by “Yolanda”, which devastated Visayas and Southern Luzon on November 8, and left more than 5,000 dead. (PNA)