AA records typhoon's real destruction from air

TACLOBAN (AA) - A crew of Anadolu Agency (AA) has taken aerial views of the Typhoon Haiyan's repercussions which devastated the central Philippines, claiming thousands of lives and displacing thousands of others.

The heavily devastated city of Tacloban looks like a ghost city where all buildings were destroyed or heavily damaged except from several reinforced concrete buildings. 

Removal of debris in the disaster area is carried out under harsh conditions due to lack of heavy machinery and workers. 

The footages show that the typhoon seriously affected the coastal regions, removing tree roots and toppling electricity pylons and also destroying nearly all houses on the coast. 

Rain and high damp in air obstruct the crews who seek for bodies of the victims under the wrecakges. Crews, searching the devastated buildings one by one, load the corpses into a truck and take them to mass grave. 

Humanitarian assisantances have been sent from the four corners of the world to Tacloban which had about 220,000 people before the deadly typhoon.

Turkey's IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation teams sent aid materials composed of 40 tons of rice, 4 tons of water, 5,000 cans of food and 5,000 packages of coffee to the crisis management center in the city of Tacloban, Philippines on Saturday.

American military aircrafts provided food, drinking water and power generators. Other countries also donated millions of dollars in assistance such as New Zealand and Australia.

The Philippines, with its 96 million population, is located in an area vulnerable to not only typhoons, but also tornados, volcanos and earthquakes. 

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