Calamities displace 4.7 million Filipinos

IN just 60 days, more than four million Filipinos were displaced by a series of calamities that struck the country, according to an international relief agency.

Bernard Kerblat, country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Philippines, said that from September 9 to November 8, there were 14 events that led to the displacement of more than 4.7 million Filipinos.