It's being reported by countless news sources that typhoon Haiyan has killed over 10,000 people in the Phillipines. The Guardian is providing an excellent timeline of news here to keep up with the play by play of what's happening on the sovereign island.
I pray for the people facing this devatation. Below are photos of women and children survivors. I assume are still realizing the terrible aftermath of Haiyan, one of the strongest recorded storms ever to make landfall.
Testimony like the one from an unidentified woman by one Reuters reporter indicate suffering:
"One woman, eight months pregnant, describes through tears how her 11 family members vanished in the storm, including two daughters. "I can't think right now," she says. "I am overwhelmed." …"
Erik DeCosta/Reuters
A pregnant woman cooked a meal inside her damaged home in Tacloban.
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Residents of Tacloban reacted to the smell of the many bodies left in the streets.
Jay Rommel Labra/European Pressphoto Agency
A family in Madridejos on Bantayan Island sheltered in what remained of their home.
Jay Rommel Labra/European Pressphoto Agency
A Catholic church was converted into an evacuation center.
Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A mother wept beside the body of her son at a chapel. By some accounts, Typhoon Haiyan, called Yolanda in the Philippines, was one of the strongest storms on record when it hit land, with some meteorologists reporting sustained winds in excess of 190 miles per hour.
Credit: Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Residents returned to their homes after leaving an evacuation site in Tacloban.
source: NYT
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