DOOLEY Observed: 1,200 Feared Dead After Most Powerful Storm Slams Philippines

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

1,200 Feared Dead After Most Powerful Storm Slams Philippines

The Philippine Red Cross estimated that at least 1,000 people were killed in the central Philippine city of Tacloban and at least 200 in Samar province when one of the most powerful typhoons ever ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes in massive storm surges.

Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross, told NBC News the numbers came from preliminary reports by Red Cross teams on the ground.

She said she expected a more exact number after a more precise counting of bodies on the ground. So far, government officials confirmed 138 people deaths, according to The Associated Press.

The typhoon slammed into six central Philippine islands on Friday, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes. At least 118 of the confirmed deaths were on hardest-hit Leyte Island, where Tacloban is located, said national disaster agency spokesman Maj. Reynaldo Balido.

But after arriving in Tacloban on Saturday, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said it was too early to know how many people had died in the storm, which was heading toward Vietnam after moving away from the Philippines.