NDMO INCREASED NUMBER OF EVACUATION CENTERS TODAY

Director of the National Disaster Management Office Loti Yates. Photo: Courtesy of SPREP.

The National Disaster Management Office has increased the number of evacuation centres today with an additional three buildings.

Eleven evacuation centers were established at various schools in the three Honiara constituencies.

SIBC’s Leni Dalavera reported today the additional evacuation Centers are the Henderson International Airport Terminal, the CYP Centre and the Tetere Police Station.

“The National Disaster Management Office has just confirmed the Internatinal Terminal at Henderson has been turned into an evacuation center. Currently around 1-thousand people have found shelter at the center. Another facility turned into an evacuation center is CYP at which 36 families have found shelter, totalling up to 5-hundred and nine people. Police at Tetere have also confirmed turning the police station into another evacuation center, which is now sheltering people within and around the Tetere area.”