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Deadly Typhoon Makes Landfall

Relief efforts face huge challenge

AP, Philippines
Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably huge relief effort that had barely begun yesterday, as bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine.
Police guarded stores to prevent people from hauling off food, water and such non-
essentials as TVs and treadmills, but there was often no one to carry away the dead — not even those seen along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the country's remote eastern seaboard.
Two officials said Sunday that Friday's typhoon may have killed 10,000 or more
FROM PAGE 16 people, but with the slow pace of recovery, the official death toll remained well below that.
Shattered communications, transportation links and local governments suggest the final toll is days away.
Tacloban resembled a garbage dump from the air, punctuated only by a few concrete buildings that remained standing.
"I don't believe there is a single structure that is not destroyed or severely damaged in some way — every single building, every single house," US Marine Brig Gen Paul Kennedy said after taking a helicopter flight over the city.
Authorities said at least 9.7 million people in 41 provinces were affected by the typhoon, which is called Yolanda in the Philippines but is known as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia. It's one of the most powerful recorded typhoons to ever hit land and likely the deadliest natural disaster to beset this
poor Southeast Asian nation.
In Tacloban, Philippine soldiers were distributing food and water, and assessment teams from the LInited Nations and other international agencies were seen for the first time. The US military dispatched food, water, generators and a contingent of Marines to the city, the first outside help in what will swell into a major international relief mission.
"Please tell my family I'm alive," said Erika Mae Karakot, a survivor on Tacloban's Leyte island, as she lined up for aid. "We need water and medicine because a lot of the people we are with are wounded. Some are suffering from diarrhoea and dehydration due to shortage of food and water."
Authorities said they had evacuated some 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon, but some of the evacuation centres proved to be no protection against the wind and rising water.
The Philippine National Red Cross, responsible for warning the region and giving advice, said people were not prepared for a storm surge.
Emily Ortega, 21 and about to give birth, was among those who had thought she was safe. But the evacuation centre she had fled to was devastated by the 6-meter (20-foot) storm surge, and she had to swim and cling to a post to survive. She reached safety at the airport, where she gave birth to a baby girl. Bea Joy Sagales appeared in good health, and her arrival drew applause from others in the airport and military medics who assisted in the delivery.
The winds, rains and coastal storm surges transformed neighbourhoods into twisted piles of debris, blocking roads and trapping decomposing bodies underneath. Ships were tossed inland, cars and trucks swept out to sea and bridges and ports washed away.