Typhoon Haiyan took more than 10,000 lives in Philippines

According to Philippines authorities super typhoon, Haiyan has not only destroyed  many towns across the country, it has also killed over 10,000 people.

“We had a meeting last night with the governor and, based on the government’s estimates, initially there are 10,000 casualties (dead). About 70 to 80 percent of the houses and structures along the typhoon’s path were destroyed,” Leyte police chief Elmer Soria said on Sunday.

Philippines’s deadliest natural disaster, typhoon Haiyan hit Leyte and the neighbouring provinces and islands with winds speed around 315 kilometres on Friday.

“This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris,” said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, the head of a UN disaster assessment coordination team, in Tacloban.

“The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami,” he added.

“The coast guard commander cannot communicate with the area. They are cut off in communications and from power,” regional civil defence director Minda Morante told reporters.

“Secretary Hagel has directed US Pacific Command to support US government humanitarian relief operations in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan,” US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel informed.

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