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TYPHOON HAIYAN: Phililppines: survivors bury their dead and begging for help


Seven days after the passage of Super Typhoon Haiyan, the latest official figures more than 2 350 people, survivors are still poor and anger rises against the paralysis of authority s local and slow distribution of aid to survivors. Many scenes of looting were reported across the province of Leyte, the most affected, despite the deployment of troops to maintain order. "In the evening, a dead silence reigned over the coastal areas devastated on a strip of land of more than 70 kilometers south of Tacloban. We see the immense beaches strewn body. People lack everything, "said Cyril Payen, FRANCE 24's special envoy to the Philippines. "From 17 hours, you can not see anything because there is no electricity. Everyone is caulked home. Everyone has a little fear of looting and security problems, "he says. If police patrols and curfew established Tacloban Palo, a little reassurance population, rumors begin to run. "The rumor is impossible to verify that the extreme left rebels come steal food, begins to" reflects Marie Linton, FRANCE 24's special correspondent in Palo on the island of Leyte. As the prisoners escape from prison in Tacloban scare people, "she says. The survivors lack everything In Palo, as elsewhere, the situation is catastrophic and can not help. Thousands of refugees lack everything: water, food, medicine. "The only real help is that of the municipality and the church in this country 80% Catholic. Different dioceses distributed rice, canned pasta and more than 2 500 families in Palo this morning, "according to Marie Linton. In the municipality, the official death toll is 813 dead and 23 missing. "But nobody really believes. This morning, we saw five corpses in the streets, some in the debris, some in mass graves. The mayor does not always afford to go retrieve the body. That's why the smell is absolutely unbearable, "says Marie Linton.   In Tacloban, capital of the island of Leyte particularly devastated by the typhoon, the same conclusion. Thousands of victims of private food and water trying to escape by getting a place on one of the few flights departing, while the ruins of the city are still littered with corpses, posing health risks . The urgency of burying the dead Nearly 200 body bags were lined up Thursday morning outside the city of Tacloban. Many bodies, many unidentified, must be transported Thursday to mass graves outside the city, one for the body identified, one for unknown whose fingerprints have been taken to try to identify a posteriori. The municipality claims to have already collected 2,000 body, so that estimating the balance of the typhoon is still difficult. The UN has raised 10,000 deaths in Tacloban City alone, but the Philippine President Benigno Aquino found this figure "too high", referring to "2000 2 500" , died. The latest provisional official figures made for his 2357 state of the dead and 77 missing. And municipalities are crying for help to recover the bodies. Slow international aid The chief UN humanitarian operations acknowledged Thursday that aid to the countless survivors of Typhoon Haiyan that ravaged the Philippines was too slow, lamenting that if they have been "abandoned" in a desperate situation. I think we are all very upset to be on the sixth day and not being able to reach everyone, "said Valerie Amos in Manila, recognizing that aid did not reach areas where "people are in desperate need of help." The U.S. aircraft carrier "George Washington" is expected in the evening on Thursday, with 5,000 sailors and 80 aircraft are expected to accelerate the delivery of aid . Japan prepares his side to send a thousand soldiers, along with ships, helicopters and transport aircraft in what promises to be the most important Japanese military mission abroad for one conducted in Indonesia, after the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004.