The scale of the disaster in the Philippines is only beginning to emerge following one of the deadliest storms ever recorded.
In one city alone, up to 10-thousand are believed to have died following Super Typhoon Haiyan.
Three days after Haiyan flattened entire towns across the central Philippines and left countless bodies scattered across wastelands, desperation is building with devastated communities devoid of food, water and medicines.
The Typhoon generated waves up to five metres high that surged inland like a tsunami, the walls of water destroying nearly everything in their path along huge stretches of coastlines throughout the central band of the archipelago.
About 10,000 people are believed to have died just in the eastern province of Leyte, of which Tacloban is the capital, according to the region's police chief.
Philippine authorities have been overwhelmed, their efforts to quickly deliver aid hamstrung by the destruction of airports, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Many areas remained cut off from any relief efforts, leaving bodies to rot in the humid atmosphere and survivors little choice but to rummage through the carnage for food, water and other essentials.
The scale of the disaster continued to unfold on Monday, with aerial photos of Samar island where Haiyan first made landfall showing whole districts of coastal towns reduced to piles of splintered wood.
Haiyan's sustained winds when it hit Samar reached 315 kilometres (195 miles) an hour, making it the strongest typhoon in the world this year and one of the most powerful ever recorded.
