The Philippines president has declared a state of national calamity and deployed hundreds of soldiers in Tacloban to quell looting in the coastal city after it was blasted by a huge typhoon.
Four million people are thought to have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan, and 10,000 people are believed to have been killed in the city of Tacloban alone, when huge waves swept away coastal villages on Friday.
Devastated communities without food, water and medicines, are showing desperation three days after the typhoon flattened entire towns and left countless bodies scattered across wastelands. Dazed survivors are scavenging for food, water and medicine.
The BBC reports there does not yet seem to be an effective operation to get help to those in need.
