Thousands Died and Continues - Philippines Typhoon

The super-typhoon that tear troth super-typhoon that tore through the Philippines and left a fear five-figure death toll touched down in central Vietnam early, before now ranking as one of Asia’s most critical natural disaster in fresh decades.

As rescue workers struggle to make some areas along a heavily injured chain of Philippine islands, survivors describe a toll that this insolvent country will be competing with for years.

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Disaster in Tacloban, Philippines: Chasers document “terrible” sight

Disaster in Tacloban, Philippines: Chasers document “terrible” sight

Entire region are without food and water, and bodies are sprinkled on the streets, after a typhoon that had much the look of a tsunami, with waves as high as two-story building. Photos and videos showed towns earth to a flesh.

President Benigno Aquino III, who travel by helicopter to Tacloban, said the government had deployed several hundred soldiers to “show the force of the status and deter more looting,” according to his official Web site.

As of Sunday evening, the government had complete only 229 deaths, but Aquino said the official numbers will rise “significantly.”

With unconfirmed wire repair reports of about 10,000 dead in Tacloban alone, Typhoon Haiyan in danger to become the deadliest tragedy in Philippine record, surpass Tropical Storm Thelma, which killed 5,000 people in 1991. With constant wind speeds of 150 to 170 mph, Haiyan is between the strongest storms on record.

“Tacloban is totally destroyed,” schoolteacher Andrew Pomeda told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from behind their family.

The latest Philippine government estimate suggest that 9.5 million people — about 10 percent of the country — have been precious, with more than 600,000 displace from their homes. Many roads remain closed; according to the U.N. office to blame for gentle dealings, and some of the hurt have no access to health care. Even in Tacloban, one of the first areas access by aid workers, it takes six hours to make the 14-mile round trip between the airport and the city because of the injure, officials said.

“It is vital that we reach those who are stranded in isolated areas as they are at risk of more threats such as underfeeding, contact to bad weather and unsafe drinking water,” said Luiza Car­valho, a U.N. gentle controller for the Philippines.

Tacloban, with a inhabitants of 220,000, is the capital of Leyte region, a high island roughly the size of Delaware. On Samar, a faintly larger island nearby, Leo Dacaynos of the provincial tragedy office told the connected Press that 300 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and parts of the island had not been contacted. Both Samar and Leyte are on the eastern side of the Philippine archipelago; reports about islands on the western side continue spare.

while the storm occur Friday, a picture of the damage is emerging only now as message lines slowly

Thousands Died and Continues - Philippines Typhoon