14 DAY TRIAL // Authorities have confirmed at least 10,000, possibly 15,000 deaths after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines on Friday.
That only includes the count in the city of Tacloban, Leyte, where the entire population could have been wiped out.
The Daily Mail writes that 500,000 people have been left without the home as the typhoon blew away their property.
Bodies are laid out in the middle of the empty streets in one of the most devastating sights that has followed a natural disaster in recent years.
The casualties could include thousands of children, and Lynette Lim, of Save the Children, pinpoints the number at about 2,000.
“We are witnessing the complete devastation of a city. In Tacloban everything is flattened. Bodies litter the street, many, many of which are children. From what I saw, two out of every five bodies was that of a child,” she says.
She mentions that the number of deaths cannot be confirmed at this point as thousands of children have been dragged away from the city during the floods.
“Children are particularly vulnerable in disasters. We fear for how many children have been washed away in floods, crushed under falling buildings and injured by flying debris.
“Many are separated from their families amid the devastation, and all are in desperate need of food, water and shelter,” she adds.
The superstorm hit the Philippines with 235mph winds, creating 20ft waves that totaled homes and left residents' lifeless bodies hanging from trees, floating in rivers or lying bloated in the street.
“Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful,” one local cried out, according to a report by the Guardian.
“The sister of the dead man came to see her brother, but she couldn't take him away, she just cried. What else can she do. There is nowhere to take him, nothing to do,” she says.