Philippines Typhoon Haiyan
November 10, 2013 by staff
Philippines Typhoon Haiyan, Hundreds of people are feared dead in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan swept through on Friday.
Among the worst hit areas were the eastern island of Leyte and the coastal city of Tacloban, which saw buildings flattened in a storm surge.
First reports said 100 bodies had been found there but the Red Cross later estimated a figure of more than 1,000, with 200 more deaths in Samar province.
Hundreds of thousands of people are reported displaced from their homes.
President Benigno Aquino said he feared there would be “substantially more casualties”.
Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said: “All systems are down. There is no power, no water, nothing. People are desperate. They’re looting.”
Typhoon Haiyan – one of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall – is now bearing down on Vietnam, where tens of thousands are being evacuated.
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