Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS
MANILA, Philippines鈥擨nterior Secretary Manuel Roxas II and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, who flew to Leyte to oversee relief efforts there, could not be reached by their mobile phones since聽9 a.m.聽Friday.
鈥淚 have talked to someone in the area with a satellite phone and I sent him over to the location of Secretary Gazmin and Secretary Roxas. Hopefully we can establish a contact with them the soonest possible time,鈥� Eduardo del Rosario, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
He declined to say when he last communicated with them however.
鈥淢aybe they communicated with somebody else at聽12 noon聽or whatever. So I cannot say the exact time because I may not be the right person to answer that,鈥� he said.