資料來源：BBC News ／ Asia
發佈時間：10 November 2013 Last updated at 17:35 GMT
The authorities in the Philippines are struggling to bring relief to some of the areas worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the country.
Up to 10,000 are said to have died in
Tacloban city and hundreds elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands are displaced.
The typhoon flattened homes, schools and an
airport in Tacloban.
Relief workers are yet to reach some towns
and villages cut off since the storm.
In many areas there is no clean water, no
electricity and very little food.
Thousands of troops have been deployed to the
disaster zones and military cargo planes are flying in supplies. However,
rescuers are hampered by debris and damaged roads.
Pope Francis pleaded for aid for the victims
in the mostly Catholic country, saying: "Sadly, there are many, many
victims and the damage is huge. Let's try to provide concrete help."
Vietnam is now preparing for the typhoon,
with more than 600,000 people evacuated in northern provinces.
The BBC Weather Centre says the typhoon is
expected to make landfall south of Hanoi on Monday morning local time (21:00
GMT Sunday to 03: 00 GMT Monday), although it will have decreased markedly in
strength.
'Not
enough manpower'
The relief efforts in the Philippines are
being focused on the eastern province of Leyte and its capital Tacloban.
But officials in the city said they were
struggling to distribute aid, looting was widespread and order was proving
difficult to enforce.
In some areas, the dead are being buried in
mass graves.
Houses have been flattened by the massive
storm surge that accompanied Typhoon Haiyan.
"There is looting in the malls and large
supermarkets. They are taking everything, even appliances like TV sets. These
will be traded later on for food," said Tacloban city administrator Tecson
John Lim.
"We don't have enough manpower. We have
2,000 employees but only about 100 are reporting for work. Everyone is
attending to their families."
President Benigno Aquino, who has visited
Tacloban, pledged to send 300 police and soldiers to "bring back peace and
order".
But local residents fear for their safety.
"Tacloban is totally destroyed. Some
people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families,"
high school teacher Andrew Pomeda told AFP news agency.
"People are becoming violent. They are
looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food, rice and milk...
I am afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger."
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports that
the scene in Tacloban is one of utter devastation.
He says hundreds of people are at the
airport, itself badly damaged, trying to get on a flight out of the city.
Philippine Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said
the scale of the relief operation that was now required was overwhelming, with
some places described as a wasteland of mud and debris.
"From a helicopter, you can see the
extent of devastation. From the shore and moving a kilometre inland, there are
no structures standing. It was like a tsunami," he told Reuters.
A UN official who arrived in Tacloban on
Saturday, Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, said he was told there had been a 3m (10ft)
water surge through the city, in places up to 10m.
Meanwhile Leo Dacaynos, an official in
Eastern Samar province, told local radio 300 people had been found dead in a
single town, Basey, with another 2,000 missing and many injured.
Communication is still limited in many areas.
In Guiuan, a town of 40,000 people near where
the typhoon made landfall, television footage showed flattened houses and roads
strewn with debris.
One woman told the ABS-CBN channel: "I
have no house, I have no clothes. I don't know how I will restart my life... I
don't know what happened to us. We are appealing for help. Whoever has a good
heart, I appeal to you - please help Guiuan."
The town of Baco, in Oriental Mindoro
province, to the north-west, is said to be 80% under water.
The latest
report from the Philippines' Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council confirmed 229 deaths as of 11:00 GMT on Sunday. It said almost 630,000
people had been reported displaced.
The Philippines has been offered aid from
overseas:
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US Defence Secretary Chuck
Hagel said the US was delivering helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and search
and rescue equipment on request
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The European Commission
released 3m euros ($4m; £2.5m) in emergency funds and is sending a team of
humanitarian experts
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The UK Rapid Response Facility
is to provide £5m ($8m) in aid and a £600,000 shipment of emergency equipment.
A team of four experts is already in the disaster zone
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The UN is to provide tents,
food and relief supplies
Typhoon Haiyan - one of the most powerful
storms on record to make landfall - swept through six central Philippine
islands on Friday.
It brought sustained winds of 235km/h
(147mph), with gusts of 275 km/h (170 mph), with waves as high as 15m (45ft),
bringing up to 400mm (15.75 inches) of rain in places.
Super typhoon death toll rises
New Day|Added on November 9, 2013
Super Typhoon Haiyan has killed an estimated
1,200 people in the Philippines, according to the Red Cross.
By Andrew
Stevens and Tom Watkins, CNN
November 9, 2013 -- Updated 1907 GMT (0307 HKT)
November 9, 2013 -- Updated 1907 GMT (0307 HKT)
Tacloban,
Philippines (CNN) -- A day after Super Typhoon
Haiyan roared through the Philippines, officials predicted that the death toll
could reach 1,200 -- or more.
"We estimate 1,000 people were killed in
Tacloban and 200 in Samar province," Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of
the Philippine Red Cross, said of two coastal areas where Haiyan hit first as
it began its march Friday across the archipelago.
The Red Cross said it would have more precise
numbers Sunday.
The government's official toll as of Saturday
evening was 138 dead, 14 injured and four missing.
But experts predicted that it will take days
to get the full scope of the damage wrought by a typhoon described as one of
the strongest to make landfall in recorded history.
"Probably the casualty figure will
increase as we get more information from remote areas, which have been cut off
from communications," said Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF's Philippines
representative.
The casualties from the storm, which affected
4.3 million people in 36 provinces, occurred despite preparations that included
the evacuation of more than 800,000 people, he said.
On Saturday, more than 330,000 people were
still in 1,223 evacuation centers, and the government had accepted a U.N. offer
of international aid.
The National Risk Reduction and Management
Council said more than 70,000 families were affected, and nearly 350,000 people
were displaced -- inside and outside evacuation centers. Thousands of houses
were destroyed, it said.
Tacloban
hardest hit
Tacloban suffered the greatest devastation,
said Lt. Jim Aris Alago, information officer for Navy Central Command.
"There are numbers of undetermined casualties found along the roads."
"We expect the greatest number of
casualties there," Alago said, adding that 100 body bags had been sent to
the area. People were wading through waist-high water, and overturned vehicles,
downed utility poles and trees were blocking roads and delaying the aid effort.
Mobile services were down, and officials were
relying on radios.
Another 100 residents in this city of 220,000
were injured, said Capt. John Andrews, deputy director of the national Civil
Aviation Authority.
Roofs and windows were blown off of and out
of many of the buildings left standing. Rescue crews were handing out
ready-to-eat meals, clothing, blankets, medicine and water, Alago said.
But the speed of the storm -- which was
clocked at 41 mph -- meant residents didn't have to hunker down long. Many
emerged Saturday from their homes and shelters and trekked through streets
littered with debris to supermarkets, looking for water and food. Several
bodies were found at a chapel; a woman wept over one.
The Philippine Red Cross succeeded in getting
its assessment team in to Tacloban but had not managed to get its main team of
aid workers and equipment to the city, said Philippine National Red Cross
Chairman Richard Gordon.
"We really are having access
problems," he said.
The city's airport was shut to
commercial flights, and it would be three days before a land route was open, so
organizers were considering chartering a boat for the 1½-to-2-day trip, he
said.
"It really is an awful, awful
situation."
Tacloban, on Leyte island, is the largest
city in the Eastern Visayas Islands. It was an important logistical base during
World War II and served as a temporary capital of the Philippines.
Some hospitals on Leyte were destroyed, the
official Philippines News Agency reported, adding that the Department of Health
had sought help from the World Health Organization.
World Food Programme spokeswoman Bettina
Luescher saud the U.N. group was gearing up its global resources to send enough
food to feed 120,000 people.
"These high-energy biscuits will keep
them alive," she said.
In addition, she said, the world body was
sending IT teams and telecommunications equipment to help humanitarian groups
coordinate their efforts once they reach the area.
She noted that much of the country's
infrastructure -- roads, bridges, airports, ports -- may have been destroyed or
damaged and that the government could use help with logistics.
Luescher pleaded for financial support from
the international community and directed those wishing to donate to
wfp.org/typhoon.
"Those are families like you and me, and
they just need our help right now," she said.
Catastrophic
destruction
The destruction across the islands was
catastrophic and widespread. For a time, storm clouds covered the entire
Philippines, stretching 1,120 miles -- the distance between Florida and Canada
-- and tropical storm-force winds covered an area the size of Germany.
A representative of the humanitarian
organization CARE in the Philippines said the agency was trying to bring in
supplies but did not know where they might be most needed. "We haven't
heard anything from the municipalities on the Pacific side," Celso Dulce
said.
The storm first struck before dawn on Friday
on the country's eastern island of Samar, flooding streets and knocking out
power and communications in most of Eastern Visayas region.
Powered by 195-mph winds and gusts up to 235
mph, it then struck near Tacloban and Dulag on the island of Leyte, flooding
the coastal communities.
"It is like a tsunami has hit
here," CNN's Paula Hancocks said from Tacloban.
Many
islands hit
Haiyan continued its march, barreling into
five other Philippine islands before its wind strength dropped Saturday to 130
mph and it lost its super typhoon designation.
On Friday, the Red Cross had more than
700,000 people in evacuation centers, but some of those proved no match for the
storm, the Red Cross' Gordon said. "People died there as well."
Meteorologists predicted that Haiyan would
weaken to a minimal typhoon or a tropical storm before making landfall Monday
morning in northern Vietnam between Hanoi and Vinh. Up to 12 inches of rain
were forecast for portions of northern Vietnam near the border with China by
Monday night.
By late Saturday, Philippine military
helicopters were taking surveys of the disaster; it took relief workers from
Manila up to 18 hours to reach the worst-hit isles.
Super Typhoon Haiyan packed a wallop on
Philippine structures that was 3.5 times more forceful than the United States'
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which directly or indirectly killed 1,833 people. At
$108 billion, it was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history.
Haiyan may be the strongest tropical cyclone
in recorded history, though meteorologists said it will take further analysis
to establish whether it is a record.
Cut-off
communities
Most of Cebu province couldn't be contacted
by landlines, cell phones or radio, Dennis Chiong, operations officer for the
province's disaster risk and emergency management, said Saturday.
One inaccessible town, Daanbantayan, has more
than 3,000 residents who "badly need food, water and shelter because most
of the houses there are damaged due to the storm," Chiong said.
In the town of Santa Fe in Cebu province,
officials could not determine the number of fatalities because roads were
washed out and phone services down.
Defenseless
against the storm's might
One major concern was the typhoon's impact on
Bohol Island, where 350,000 people had been living in tents and temporary
shelters since last month's earthquake, said Joe Curry of Catholic Relief
Services.
But he said he was concerned about other
areas, too.
"There are a lot of rural areas, a lot
of small islands that are affected," Curry said. "We don't know how
they can protect themselves from a typhoon of this strength."
Clarson Fruelda of Cebu City said residents
were cleaning up dirt, leaves, coconuts and tree branches from their homes.
"The winds were the strongest that I
felt in more than 20 years," Fruelda said. "These past few weeks were
really tough for my wife and I and probably for Cebuanos as well since it was
just a few weeks ago when we were hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake."
CNN's Paula Hancocks and Andrew Stevens reported from Tacloban, and Faith Karimi and Tom Watkins wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Michael Martinez, Aliza Kassim, Jessica King, Brandon Miller and Yousuf Basil contributed to this report.
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