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Sunday, 10 November 2013

Filipinos struggle to cope with huge typhoon that was 'like a tsunami'

Daily Mail
  • Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with gusts of up to 235mph
  • Authorities say in the city of Tacloban, Leyte, alone, 10,000 could be dead
  • Up to 4.3 million people have been affected, Filipino national disaster agency say
  • Bodies were seen floating in flooded streets in reminder of 2004 Tsunami
  • Filipino government now considering introducing martial law to combat looting
  • Britain has pledged more than £6million in aid and support for the Philippines
  • UN says 2.5m people need of food aid and UNICEF estimate 1.5 m children affected
  • A team of about 90 U.S. Marines and sailors have been dispatched to the nation
  • Hundreds of thousands of people in South East Asia have been evacuated
  • Vietnam authorities have moved 883,000 people in 11 central provinces to safe zones
  • Typhoon has now made landfall in Sanya in south China's Hainan province 
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