Hundreds of people are feared dead in the Philippines after the super typhoon ‘Haiyan’ left a trail of destruction across the country.
More than 1,000 people are believed to have died in just Tacloban, the provincial capital of leyte, some 580 km south-east of here. “We now fear that thousands will have lost their lives. An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Cross teams. In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing,” Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross was quoted as saying by media reports.
Offical reports however put the toll at over 100. “The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami,” The Independent quoted Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of the UN Disaster Assessment Coordination Team sent to Tacloban, as saying.