It could have been a scene from a horror movie after the deluge: dazed men and women and even children walking in debris-strewn streets where the dead are scattered all over. It was a day after the world's most powerful typhoon made a landfall in Leyte, specifically Tacloban city that suffered a colossal devastation, felling trees and ripping apart houses and blowing away structures of light materials. And, of course, killing people inside their houses and those outside their homes. Reports say at least 10,000 people were feared to have been killed in Tacloban alone.
The high number of casualties was attributed to storm surge where giant sea waves spawned by the strong winds at 235 kilometers per hour (314 kph by US estimate) swept through the city which is located near the sea.
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