Tacloban City, named "Yolanda's Ground Zero," was the most ... "We conducted preemptive 'forced evacuation' in the coastal barangays (villages), but some residents misconstrued it as 'forced ...

In one coastal municipality in the Visayas region, Tacloban City, more than 80,000 ... of the 582,203 people displaced by Typhoon Yolanda in the country, only 286,433 are in the 933 evacuation centers ...

READ: Survivors told to learn disaster lessons from Super Typhoon Yolanda But in Leyte’s capital city, Tacloban ... also established three permanent evacuation centers—two in Barangay Abucay ...

Cebu province in the Eastern Visayas lay in the direct path of the super Typhoon Yolanda (international ... prepares shelter evacuation centers for the influx of evacuees from surrounding areas, such ...