A typhoon that battered and terrorized the residents of Phillippine’s Leyta Island may have caused up to 10,000 deaths. The islands central city of Tacloban was hit by storms whose surges were as high as trees and collapsed some buildings.
There have been already 300-400 bodies recovered.
The typhoon’s winds reached speeds as high as 147 miles per hour with gusts of 170 mph. Central and northern Vietnam were in the path of the typhoon and more than 500,000 people were evacuated.