Desperate Filipino residents wait for flights out of typhoon-hit city
Reuters
2013-11-12
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STORY: Hundreds of residents crowded the heavily-damaged Tacloban airport on Tuesday (November 12) hoping to get a flight out of the devastated city.
Inside the terminal building, the elderly sat patiently along with mostly women and children as they waited for flights on board a Philippine military plane that will take them to the capital Manila.
Priority is given to the sick, infants and elderly.
Many of the residents say they don't mind the long wait, which could take days.
Tacloban, a once-vibrant port city of 220,000 is now a corpse-choked wasteland without any sign of a government, as city and hospital workers focus on saving their families and securing food.
Philippine officials have been overwhelmed by Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest on record, which tore through the central Philippines on Friday (November 8) and flattened Tacloban, coastal capital of Leyte province where officials fear 10,000 peo
STORY: Hundreds of residents crowded the heavily-damaged Tacloban airport on Tuesday (November 12) hoping to get a flight out of the devastated city.
Inside the terminal building, the elderly sat patiently along with mostly women and children as they waited for flights on board a Philippine military plane that will take them to the capital Manila.
Priority is given to the sick, infants and elderly.
Many of the residents say they don't mind the long wait, which could take days.
Tacloban, a once-vibrant port city of 220,000 is now a corpse-choked wasteland without any sign of a government, as city and hospital workers focus on saving their families and securing food.
Philippine officials have been overwhelmed by Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest on record, which tore through the central Philippines on Friday (November 8) and flattened Tacloban, coastal capital of Leyte province where officials fear 10,000 peo
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