Typhoon Haiyan The Phillipines Disaster

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Thousands likely dead after Phillipines typhoon | Fox News

In one city, Tacloban, with a population of 200,000 they are expecting 10,000 dead. That's 5% of that CITY's population. To put that in perspective look down your own street. For every 6 houses there is somebody dead.

A senior regional police official and a city administrator in the typhoon-ravaged city of Tacloban in the central Philippines said early Sunday that the death toll there could reach 10,000 people, according to the Associated Press.

Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla on Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths on the island, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings.

Tacloban city administrator Tecson Lim said that the death toll in the city alone "could go up to 10,000."

"I told him all systems are down," Gazmin said. "There is no power, no water, nothing. People are desperate. They're looting."

 

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Philippines reels from catastrophe as Typhoon Haiyan heads to Vietnam - CNN.com

 

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Typhoon Haiyan: US forces heading to storm-devastated Philippine islands - World News

Tacloban, a town of more than 220,000 people, was almost completely submerged by waves of up to 40 feet in height.

Throughout Leyte, officials were struggling to cope with the number of dead.

“We have so many dead people,” said Remedios Petilla, an official in Leyte. “We don’t have bags, bags for the dead.”

 

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Interactive Map of Typhoon Haiyan

Interactive Map of Typhoon Haiyan

Super-typhoon Haiyan: Interactive Google crisis map tracks deadly storm's path, record-breaking wind-speeds and where locals can find evacuation and medical centres - News - The Independent


Tacloban is southeast of Manila, below Samar Island. It's also NNE of Cebu.

 

[Irish2155]

Anything to take my mind off Pitt.

 

[ohara831]

My thoughts and prayers are with those people in that devastated country. Just heartbreaking.

 

[irishff1014]

PGA golfer Jason Day lost a few family members into the incident.

 

[NDPhilly]

Day's mothers side is Filipino.

Golfer Jason Day lost eight relatives to Typhoon Haiyan - CBS News