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Typhoon Haiyan is a maximum category 5 storm which is the worst ever to have landed in Philippines causing deaths and utter destruction. About 4.3million people may have been affected as the storm has moved to southern china.
Desperate survivors of the devastating Philippines typhoon told yesterday how they had to steal from the dead to eat.
In the worst-hit areas, 200mph winds created 20ft waves that are thought to have killed between 10,000 and 15,000 and left 500,000 homeless after their houses were reduced to splinters. Super-typhoon Haiyan struck with such force on Friday that entire villages were flattened, ships were swept inland and corpses were left hanging from trees.
Even as families began to grieve for their dead, they faced a grim battle to find shelter and forage for food and clean water. Dazed survivors walked the streets ‘like zombies looking for food’ while looters ransacked shops and mobs attacked aid trucks loaded with food, tents and water. Reports of lawless gangs tageting ATM machines and electrical shops forced President Benigno Aquino to deploy police and army troops to the area to restore calm.
Teacher Andrew Pomeda, 36, added: ‘Tacloban is totally destroyed. Some people are losing their minds from hunger or losing their families. People are becoming violent. 'I am afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger.’ Mirasol Saoyi, 27, said: ‘The huge waves came again and again, flushing us out on the street and washing away our homes.
One young mother fought tears as she told how the typhoon killed 11 members of her family, including her two-year-old daughter.
Jenny Dela Cruz, who is eight months pregnant, added: ‘All we can do is survive the day, but I don’t know what will happen tomorrow or the day after – or if we can continue surviving.’
A team of about 90 U.S. Marines and sailors have been dispatched to the Philippines on Sunday, part of a first wave of promised American military assistance for relief efforts.
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