Ormoc City in Leyte Province was among the hardest areas hit by Typhoon Yolanda, along with Dulag, Tolasa, and Tublacon City, with 12 people dead in Ormoc alone.
Many more were killed in Tublacon, with an estimated 10,000 people dead nationwide.Ormoc Rep. Lucy Torrez-Gomez told ABS-CBN that “there is not a single home in Ormoc that is not severely damaged.”
She told Rappler there’s thousands of homeless people after the typhoon damage and that there’s no clean water or electricity.
“The situation there is very bad,” Gomez said. “The entire city is devastated. Homes are damaged and it doesn’t matter whether they’re sturdy. Entire roads are gone, shanties across coastal areas are totally damaged.”
