They didn’t have to sack him in the first place.
“Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria, the police officer who was sacked from his post for declaring that as many as 10,000 people died in Tacloban City because of Typhoon Yolanda, will soon be reinstated,” reports Francisco Tuyay in Manila Standard Today.
The report quoted Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas, who said, “He would be back on duty but not to his previous assignment.” Soria had been the head of the Philippine National Police in Region 8.
Meanwhile, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has revealed that as of 6am on Thursday, Nov 28, the Typhoon Yolanda death toll is now at 5,560. The number is still expected to rise.
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