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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: YahooNews on Nov 11, 2013, 11:31 AM

Title: Typhoon survivors beg for help; Philippine rescuers struggle
Post by: YahooNews on Nov 11, 2013, 11:31 AM
By Manuel Mogato and Roli Ng TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Dazed survivors of a super typhoon that swept through the central Philippines killing an estimated 10,000 people begged for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine on Monday, threatening to overwhelm military and rescue resources. As President Benigno Aquino deployed hundreds of soldiers in the coastal city of Tacloban to quell looting, reports from one town showed apocalyptic scenes of destruction in another region that has not been reached by rescue workers or the armed forces. The Armed Forces in the central Philippines on Monday reported a death toll of 942. The United Nations said officials in Tacloban, which bore the brunt of the storm on Friday, had reported one mass grave of 300-500 bodies.