Haiyan is no longer a typhoon, but the destruction it left in the Philippines will take months or even years to overcome.The
typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced an unimaginably huge recovery
effort that had barely begun Monday. As the official death toll rises to
942, many more bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and
survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine.
Military spokesman Lt. Jim Alagao said 275 others were confirmed missing from the storm. The death toll is expected to rise considerably. Two provincial officials predicted Sunday that it could reach 10,000 or more.
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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.
At a small naval base, eight bloated corpses - including that of a baby - were submerged in sea water brought in by the storm. Officers there had yet to move them, saying they had no body bags or electricity to preserve them.
Two officials said Sunday that Friday's typhoon may have killed
10,000 or more people, but with the slow pace of recovery, the official
death toll remained well below that. The Philippine military confirmed
942 dead, but shattered communications, transportation links and local
governments indicate that the final toll will take days to be known.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said "we pray" that the death toll
is less than 10,000.
"Haiyan is now just a remnant low over southern China, after coming ashore south of Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday afternoon (U.S. time)," said weather.com Senior Meteorologist Jon Erdman. "This ended an over one-week journey, from Micronesia to Palau to the Philippines and finally to northern Vietnam and China."
Military spokesman Lt. Jim Alagao said 275 others were confirmed missing from the storm. The death toll is expected to rise considerably. Two provincial officials predicted Sunday that it could reach 10,000 or more.
(MORE: How You Can Help Typhoon Victims)
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.
At a small naval base, eight bloated corpses - including that of a baby - were submerged in sea water brought in by the storm. Officers there had yet to move them, saying they had no body bags or electricity to preserve them.
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"Haiyan is now just a remnant low over southern China, after coming ashore south of Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday afternoon (U.S. time)," said weather.com Senior Meteorologist Jon Erdman. "This ended an over one-week journey, from Micronesia to Palau to the Philippines and finally to northern Vietnam and China."
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