Supertyphoon "Haiyang". Victims of about 10 000 people.

The number of victims of Super Haiyang reached 10 thousand.

Supertyphoon "Haiyang" that hit the province of Leyte Philippine Islands on 8 November, has killed at least 10 thousand. Man. From raging elements affected already 4 million people, reports Reuters. Without a roof over your head left 500 thousand. Man.

Philippine President Aquino Bening refused to give even an approximate number of dead.

The strip of destruction stretches along the central part of the Philippines for about 600 km. In the cities, the cyclone destroyed 80% of buildings, villages were de-energized, fallen trees blocked roads. The peak of destruction recorded in Tacloban.

According to the forecasts, the last typhoon was one of the strongest ever recorded. Cyclone was given a fifth, the highest category of risk. Wind gusts at the center of the cyclone reached 315-379 km / h. Previous uragan- "champion" "Camille," struck the US coast in 1969. Had a rate of "only" 305 km / h.

Source: top.rbc.ru/incidents/10/11/2013/887686.shtml





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