Authorities in the Philippines were counting bodies on Monday morning amid acute shortage of electricity, food, water and medicine for survivors, days after Super Typhoon Haiyan caused unprecedented devastation. The storm is now ripping through northeastern Vietnam.
Haiyan made landfall in northern Vietnam, near the Chinese border, after weakening to a tropical storm, carrying gusts of up to 98 mph.
About 883,000 people in Vietnam's 11 central provinces have been moved to safe zones, according to the state media, which also said at least 11 people had been killed in the country ahead of the storm. One of those killed was a journalist who died in an accident as she was traveling to cover the storm, according to BBC.
In the Philippines, survivors could be seen standing in lines for rice and water, some of them covering their faces with rags due to the smell of the dead, Reuters reported, describing the scene in Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province where Haiyan destroyed about 80 percent of structures in its path.
"From a helicopter, you can see the extent of devastation. From the shore and moving a kilometer inland, there are no structures standing. It was like a tsunami," Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas was quoted as saying, of Tacloban. "I don't know how to describe what I saw. It's horrific."
"I can't think right now," an eight-month pregnant woman, who has lost 11 members of her family including two daughters, was quoted as saying. "I am overwhelmed."
Haiyan made landfall in northern Vietnam, near the Chinese border, after weakening to a tropical storm, carrying gusts of up to 98 mph.
About 883,000 people in Vietnam's 11 central provinces have been moved to safe zones, according to the state media, which also said at least 11 people had been killed in the country ahead of the storm. One of those killed was a journalist who died in an accident as she was traveling to cover the storm, according to BBC.In the Philippines, survivors could be seen standing in lines for rice and water, some of them covering their faces with rags due to the smell of the dead, Reuters reported, describing the scene in Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province where Haiyan destroyed about 80 percent of structures in its path.
"From a helicopter, you can see the extent of devastation. From the shore and moving a kilometer inland, there are no structures standing. It was like a tsunami," Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas was quoted as saying, of Tacloban. "I don't know how to describe what I saw. It's horrific."
"I can't think right now," an eight-month pregnant woman, who has lost 11 members of her family including two daughters, was quoted as saying. "I am overwhelmed."
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