PHILIPPINES: Air evacuation continues at Tacloban airport as local residents queue to board planes out of the city hit by super Typhoon Haiyan

Record ID: 564764

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: Air evacuation continues at Tacloban airport as local residents queue to board planes out of the city hit by super Typhoon Haiyan
  • Date: 18th November 2013
  • Summary: TACLOBAN, LEYTE PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES (NOVEMBER 18, 2013) (REUTERS) HIGH SHOT OF CROWD OF PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE IN FRONT OF AIRPORT GATE PEOPLE STANDING IN A QUEUE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE STANDING IN A LINE, SOME HOLDING UMBRELLAS PEOPLE STANDING IN THE SHADE A FAMILY STANDING WITH THEIR BELONGINGS FATHER PICKING UP BOY TO SHOW HIM PLANES (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL TACLOBAN RESIDENT, AIKA, SAYING: "There is no food, no shelter, and we could have a, we could be sick here, because of the air, because of the dead." PHILIPPINES AIRFORCE PLANE ON TARMAC WITH A LINE OF PEOPLE STANDING NEXT TO IT VARIOUS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS COUNTING PEOPLE GETTING ON PLANE MORE OF PEOPLE GETTING ONTO PLANE AIRPLANE ON TARMAC VARIOUS OF US ARMY/MARINES CLEANING UP AIRPORT BY HAND
  • Embargoed: 3rd December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Philippines
  • Country: Philippines
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA5YHVDL5D4THANH0SZ8C6W29CR
  • Story Text: Crowds of Tacloban residents queued at the airport in a bid to flee the typhoon-hit city on Monday (November 18).
    Some resident held umbrella's to shade themselves from the sun bearing down on them as they gathered at Tacloban airport hoping to get on a flight out.
    One resident said they had nothing and the smell of decaying bodies filled the air.

    "There is no food, no shelter, and we could have a, we could be sick here, because of the air, because of the dead," Aika said.
    More than a week after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 3,633 with tree-snapping winds and tsunami-like waves, hundreds of international aid workers have set up makeshift hospitals and trucked in supplies.
    The number of people made homeless by the storm rose to 1.9 million, up from 900,000, the United Nations' humanitarian agency said. In Tacloban, at least 56,000 people face unsanitary conditions, the United Nations' migration agency said.
    U.S military assistance has been pouring into the Philippines since Thursday (November 14) when the USS George Washington aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived off eastern Samar province, carrying 5,000 crew and more than 80 aircraft.
    The Philippines is one of Washington's closest allies in Asia and a crucial partner in U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy of rebalancing U.S. military forces towards the region to counter the rising clout of China.
    The Pentagon said on Friday (November 15) that U.S. Navy amphibious ships will leave Okinawa in Japan "in the coming hours" carrying an additional 1,000 marines and sailors who will provide engineering equipment, relief supplies, and medical support.
    The U.S. military estimates that it delivered some 623,000 pounds (283,000 kg) of U.S. relief supplies to the Philippines so far. The American military also estimated that it had moved nearly 1,200 relief workers into Tacloban and airlifted nearly 2,900 displaced people from affected areas so far.
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