Many dead in catastrophic typhoon in the Philippines

A second storm is threatening the Philippines and may cause a challenge in dealing with the largest typhoon in history that hit this nation.

A second storm is threatening the Philippines and may cause a challenge in dealing with the largest typhoon in history that hit this nation. More than 100 bodies are lying in the streets of one Philippine city that was hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan, an aviation authority chief said Saturday.

There is no report of any tourists hurt at this time, but airports had been close and many regions have no access to communications yet.

Recovery and rescue efforts have begun across the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, but another tropical disturbance could impact the same areas next week.

The strongest tropical cyclone of the year, and perhaps one of the strongest at landfall in recorded history, has impacted millions across the central Philippines.

Unfortunately, another tropical disturbance, currently south of Guam, will take a track similar to Haiyan, leading to unsettled weather from Tuesday into Wednesday.

At this point, it is not clear if this area of showers and thunderstorms will become a named tropical cyclone; however, locally heavy rainfall will be a concern across the central and southern Philippines.

Areas that will still be trying to recover from Haiyan will be subject to persistent downpours which could lead to further flooding and even increase the threat for mudslides.

The hardest-hit areas include the Visayas region as the center of the storm rushed through the islands leaving a path of destruction.
Many areas remain cut-off from aid as power remains out and most roadways are impassible.

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John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said the Tacloban airport manager had radioed the head office in Manila to report “100-plus dead, lying on the streets, with 100 plus injured”.

“This report was relayed to us by our station manager so it is considered very reliable information,” he told ABS-CBN television in an interview.

“According to the station manager the airport is completely ruined.”

Tacloban is the capital of Leyte, a large island of about two million people that was hit by Haiyan on Friday morning when the storm was at its strongest, knocking out all its communication facilities.

Andrews said the information about the deaths was relayed by high-frequency radio to the authorities.

Local television GMA network reported that storm surges had hit Tacloban and nearby Palo town on its east coast.

Its reporter said he counted at least 31 bodies, including 20 at the Palo church.

Philippine authorities are now rushing rescuers and communication equipment to the island.

Five other people have been confirmed killed elsewhere in the central Philippines.

Haiyan hurtled into Leyte and nearby Samar island with maximum sustained winds of around 315 kilometres (195 miles) an hour, making it the strongest typhoon in the world this year and one of the most intense ever to make landfall.

It swept across the central and southern Philippines throughout the day before exiting into the South China Sea and tracking towards Vietnam.

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