US, British warships help distribute relief goods [View all]

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Source: Manila Times

TACLOBAN CITY: United States and British warships were deployed on Tuesday to the typhoon-ravaged Visayas where more than a thousand people have been confirmed dead and countless survivors are begging for help in rain-soaked wastelands.

Four days after super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) destroyed entire coastal towns with record winds and tsunami-like waves, the magnitude of the disaster continued to build with almost unimaginable horror.

“We are certainly expecting the worst. As we get more and more access we find the tragedy of more and more people killed in this typhoon,” United Nations humanitarian operations director John Ging said.

The UN warned 10,000 people were feared dead in just one city, Tacloban, the provincial capital of Leyte province where five-meter waves flattened nearly everything in their path.

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