Over 10,000 Dead In Philippines As Typhoon Haiyan Devastates The Country
By Countercurrents.org
10 October, 2013
Countercurrents.org
More than 10,000 people are believed to have died in Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the country. Up to 10,000 are said to have died in Tacloban city and hundreds elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands are displaced. Philippines is struggling to bring relief to some of the areas worst affected
The regional police chief for eastern Leyte province said 10,000 people were believed to have died on that island alone, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings.
"We had a meeting last night with the governor and, based on the government's estimates, initially there are 10,000 casualties [dead]," Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria said in the provincial capital, Tacloban.
Soria said that as much as 80 percent of the area in the path of Haiyan in Leyte province was destroyed.
The typhoon flattened homes, schools and an airport in Tacloban.
Relief workers are yet to reach some towns and villages cut off since the storm.
Thousands of troops have been deployed to the disaster zones and military cargo planes are flying in supplies. However, rescuers are hampered by debris and damaged roads.
Vietnam is now preparing for the typhoon, with more than 600,000 people evacuated in northern provinces.
At least four people were reported killed there, apparently while trying to escape the storm.
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