Sendong victims rescued at sea (Raw Video)

Sendon victims rescued at sea by seafarers

A video of a random rescue of Sendong victims swept out to the sea has been posted on Youtube. The video shows eight individuals, 5 of them are children, who were desperately clinging to wooden debris to remain afloat 12 kilometers away from the nearest shore in Iligan City, one of the most badly affected areas of the Tropical Storm Sendong. They were spotted by seamen aboard the M/V Yang A who immediately facilitated a rescue operation.

In the video, the victims, only one of them knows how to swim, can be heard saying they have been drifted to the sea by a gush of flood water that hit their homes Friday night - they were rescued the next morning. One of the adult women says she had her kids with her and is worried about them since she thinks they are dead already.

Check out below the said video courtesy of "tatacalungsod":


A number of Sendong victims were sent offshore by flood. Some of them were found as far as 80 kilometers from land - many were dead.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the Sendong death toll has now climbed to 1,010 - 650 in Cagayan de Oro City, 283 in Iligan City and the rest in other areas. At least 51 people are still missing.