Supplies for The Super Typhoon survivors

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Super Typhoon survivors struggling for food Images: metro.us

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More than nine million people have been affected in the Philippines, and many are now struggling to survive without food, shelter or clean drinking water.

A picture is slowly emerging of the full damage wrought by the storm:

• The exposed easterly town of Guiuan, Samar province - population 40,000 - is said to be largely destroyed

• Tacloban, Leyte province, was largely flattened by a massive storm surge and scores of corpses are piled by the roadside, leaving a stench in the air as they rot, say correspondents. Hundreds of people have gathered at the airport desperate for food and water, others trying to get a flight out

• Disaster worker Dennis Chong told the BBC that assessments in the far north of Cebu province had shown some towns had suffered "80-90% damage"

• Baco, a city of 35,000 in Oriental Mindoro province, was 80% under water, the UN said.

An enormous international relief effort is under way, but rescue staffs have struggled to reach some towns and villages cut off since the storm. "There's a great number of casualties, a lot of people dead all over the place, a lot of destruction," Richard Gordon, head of the Philippine Red Cross, told the BBC. "It's absolute bedlam right now, but hopefully it will turn out better as more and more supplies get into the area." "The situation is bad, the devastation has been noteworthy.

In some instances the devastation has been total," Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras told a news conference. Mr Gordon said roads had now been cleared to allow relief staffs to get to some of the hardest hit areas, but that they expected to find many more casualties. "It's only now that they were able to get in and we're beginning just to bring in the necessary food items . . . as well as water and other things that they need." Forecasters predicted a tropical depression would move into the south and central Philippines on Tuesday, potentially bringing heavy rains that would further hamper relief efforts.




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