The Search, Rescue and Retrieval (SRR) operations for the missing in the Negros Island Region (NIR) following Typhoon “Tino” has been terminated, an Office of Civil Defense official said on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council advised the termination of the SRR on Sunday, November 16 , OCD NIR Director Donato Sermeno III said.
But in the NIR, Sermeno said, if families are not satisfied with the termination, the search will continue on a case to case basis.
“If a family is not satisfied, their request will be acted on,” Sermeno said.
The Management of the Dead and Missing cluster is currently consolidating data for a final tally in the NIR, Sermeno said.
Sermeno said the death toll in the NIR from Typhoon “Tino” is 95 and not 107 as previously reported by the OCD following the discovery of the double entry of some names of the dead.
Based on the record of the Police Regional Office NIR the death toll was 95 as of 11 a.m. Tuesday, he said.
Sermeno said 92 of the recovered bodies were identified and three were unidentified.
Forty are still missing, he said.*