Clean up: Police and military personnel are removing bodies from the streets of Tacloban as they try to restore order
Soldiers Hold Back Desperate Filipinos Trying To Escape Their Typhoon-Ravaged Region As 3,000 People Try To Board Two Aircraft That Can Only Take A Few Hundred -- Daily Mail
* Typhoon Haiyan was a maximum category-five storm with gusts of up to 235mph
* Authorities say in the city of Tacloban, Leyte, alone, 10,000 could be dead and 'two out of five bodies' are children
* Aid agencies say as many as 10million people could be in need of shelter, clean water and food
* Mortuaries set up in remaining buildings like churches are overrun with bodies
* Britain has pledged more than £10 million in aid and support for the Philippines and is sending war ship to area
* Team of 12 British surgeons and paramedics sent to the region to help overstretched medics
* U.S. will give £12.5m in immediate aid and deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington to provide assistance
* Aid pledged by governments of Australia, Canada, China and Taiwan and UN released £15million
* Thousands trying to secure evacuation from city of Tacloban, which has been destroyed by typhoon
* Survivors at city airport said they have not eaten in more than a day
Soldiers were forced to hold back thousands of desperate Filipinos as they rushed to board two military planes that could only evacuate a few hundred people from the typhoon-ravaged region.
About 3,000 Tacloban residents walked for miles to queue for help at the airport but just two planes arrived to take survivors to Manila, the capital of Philippines.
There were scenes of chaos and devastation as families, many of whom contained young children or elderly people, were held back by soldiers.
When the two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived, people surged forward past a broken iron fence as they tried to secure a seat.
But only a few hundred made it aboard and the rest were left to wait in the rain, with few supplies.
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