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Chaos after the typhoon Haiyan: Survivors storm runway in Tacloban / Breaking News

At the airport from Tacloban to play after the devastating typhoon dramatic scenes from. Thousands of survivors fight for the few places in auxiliary aircraft, parents try to at least bring their children to safety. The US  Army sent an aircraft carrier to the region.

Get out of here: How many think the survivors of tropical storm “Haiyan” who are stuck still in the disaster area even days after the typhoon. Especially the city of Tacloban on Leyte Island is a dangerous place to live. Food, clean water and medicines are scarce, there probably is no electricity for months. Still, the streets are littered with rubble and corpses. But who wants to get away from here, does not have many options: One is the small airport of the city. And at which dramatic scenes take.

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Just after daybreak, two transport planes from Lockheed C-130 of the Philippine Air Force were landed there, also some civilian aircraft. More than 3,000 refugees who had endured at the airport building, stormed, according to an AP reporter at the same time onto the tarmac to get to the aircraft. Only a few dozen soldiers and police tried to hold back the crowd in the pouring rain.

Desperate Mothers held up their babies to be, perhaps preferably left in the hope to the aircraft. A 30-year-old woman was trembling violently on a stretcher. Few people were left on board, a few hundred will be the successful escape by air so far.

“I pleaded with the soldiers,” said Helen Cordial, who lost her house in the storm. “I knelt and begged because I have diabetes. Want to, that I die at this airport?”

Typhoon Haiyan:Farewell with tears

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Among the lucky few at the airfield from Tacloban was Joselito Caimoy . The 42 -year-old truck driver managed to get his wife to accommodate his son and his three year old daughter in one of the machines. In tears Caimoy took leave of his family – he wants to stay in the devastated city to take care of the remains of his possessions .

” There is no water here , no food ,” he said. “The people on the streets looking for food or begging family and friends. ” The demolitions are just too immense, shopping centers and grocery stores were completely pillaged . “The people are hungry. And the authorities can not control these people . ”

Many residents Taclobans have spent the night in the open air – in the ruins of their homes or on the street. Some stayed in tents , which they have received from the government or aid groups .

To their desperate situation is the fact that the Philippines is already the next storm approaches : The tropical storm ” Zoraida ” is to pass on Wednesday and Thursday at the southern disaster area. Already, the foothills are felt in Tacloban , it rains sometimes violently . From the island of Cebu several ferry crossings were canceled because of the raging sea.

Typhoon Haiyan:Overwhelming rush to temporary clinic

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Doctors in Tacloban asking desperately for drugs. In addition to the heavily damaged airport control tower , there is a makeshift clinic , doctors have treated in the military since the storm claims to be about a thousand people . ” The rush is overwhelming,” said Antonio Tamayo , a captain of the Philippine Air Force. “We need more medication. , We can not vaccinate against tetanus people , because we have no active ingredient . ”

According to the authorities estimate at least 10,000 people died in the typhoon killed about 660,000 are homeless. Proportion is in Tacloban , with its 220,000 inhabitants. CNN said Mayor Alfred Romualdez in his city had previously been recovered 250 bodies .

But it is probably only a fraction of the actual number of victims . UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said, citing estimates of 10,000 dead alone in Tacloban.

Still be countless deaths around on the streets , hanging in the air the smell of decomposition . Even on the grounds of the small naval base from Tacloban bob least eight bloated corpses in the water , including the body of an infant . From an AP reporter asked why the dead are not safe , officers responded that there were no body bags and also no power to cool the dead.

Typhoon Haiyan:At least two months without electricity

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Although the cellular network works again in some places , a repair of the infrastructure for a long time can be no question . So there should be no earlier than current back in two months – the Energy Minister Jericho petilla in Philippine television. Too many power poles were toppled . Because even gas stations were destroyed by the devastating winds, had to be rationed petrol sales on the island of Leyte.

After all the running help from abroad now . So the night started , the U.S. aircraft carrier ” USS George Washington ” Hong Kong ” full steam ahead ” towards the Philippines as a Pentagon spokesman said. He has more than 5,000 Marines and 80 aircraft and helicopters on board.

He will be accompanied by two cruisers and a destroyer of the U.S. Navy . Two other ships were already on their way . The ships and helicopters with their crews to help distribute relief supplies. The soldiers will also be used in medical care .

The U.S. government also announced in humanitarian aid of $ 20 million , including 55 tons of food and essential toiletries. A first charge for the supply of about 10,000 families was on the way .

Germany once again has raised its aid to one million euros , as Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced after talks with Philippine Foreign Secretary Evan Garcia . The money goes to help local charities to the German , the injured and homeless . At the weekend , the German government had already provided 500,000 euros.

How chaotic is the situation , particularly in Tacloban, is clearly in a different message from the disaster area . According to a Philippine General’s inmates have escaped a provincial prison in the city after they were able to knock down a wall of the building .

The guards tried to stop the escapee by force of arms , but that has not worked at all. In the prison had 600 inmates sat before – how many of them escape is actually successful , Brigadier General Virgilio Espineli not said. But he put two questions into the room , “Where will these people go What will they eat ? ”

There are truly apocalyptic day for the city of Tacloban.

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