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Typhoon Haiyan Kills 100 in Philippines, Heads to Vietnam
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Super Typhoon Haiyan battered the central Philippines, triggering landslides and storm surges that killed hundreds of people, destroyed an airport, cut power and phone lines and damaged crops before heading to Vietnam.
About 100 bodies were found on the streets in Tacloban City in Leyte province, where the year’s most powerful cyclone made landfall yesterday, John Andrews, deputy director of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said today by phone. The death toll may reach 1,200, including 1,000 in Tacloban and 200 in Samar province, CNN said on its website, citing Gwen Pang, secretary general of the Philippine Red Cross.