The typhoon “Haiyan” leaves a trail of destruction. According to the Red Cross he has destroyed up to 80 percent of the Philippine city of Tacloban. The government fears hundreds of deaths across the country.

There are terrible photos, spread the amateurs from the Philippine city of Tacloban. Some show the badly damaged airport. Other cars overturned, half-submerged in the muddy waters. Others a little girl huddles with a troubled look on a concrete bollard. A photo shows a man who carries the body of his six year old daughter, the girl is apparently drowned in the floods.

Since the meantime the power supply and telephone connections were broken by the monster storm “Haiyan”, the images of devastation were initially mainly on social media such as Twitter and YouTube. But now also spread the news agencies first assessments by experts and eyewitnesses.

An employee of the German Red Cross reports on a devastating scale destruction in Tacloban City. “It may be 80 percent of the city destroyed,” Bernd Schell told the news agency dpa. “There is almost no house anymore,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Civil Protection, Reynaldo Balido. Tacloban City is the capital of the Philippine province of Leyte, about 220,000 people live there, according to official figures. The province with more than 1.7 million inhabitants is one of the poorest in the country.

The local TV station ABS-CBN reported a storm surge with floods that reached three stories high. An employee of the United Nations compares the extent of destruction with the impact of the tsunami, the 26 December 2004 was swept Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other Indian Ocean islands and hundreds of thousands of people had been killed.

How many people fell the typhoon “Haiyan” victim, is currently difficult to predict. Energy minister said on Saturday Jericho petilla to ABS-CBN of possibly hundreds dead alone in the coastal region around the city of Palo on Leyte Island.

In Tacloban, the bodies subject on the streets, said John Andrews, vice-director of the Civil Aviation Authority, in a television interview. But you can still give any information about the number of victims. The station manager of the airport had previously talked to the AP news agency of more than 100 dead and about 100 injured again.

In total, four million people are affected by the consequences of the monster storm in the Philippines, according to the Department of Civil Protection. The authorities mobilized 15,000 soldiers and thousands helper to provide the people in the disaster area in the central Philippines. In some places, they came after media reports continue to just walk because the roads are blocked by landslides and fallen trees. The army was also in use by helicopters.

The storm now to controls on Vietnam. The government called on some 100,000 to flee their homes and seek refuge in accommodation. Especially in the central provinces of Vietnam Danang and Quang Nai security measures have been arranged.

The wind speeds are likely to be lower than in the coating of the Philippines, where gusts with speeds of up to 315 kilometers per hour were measured. Are expected wind speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour. For comparison, the intense low “Christian” a few weeks ago in Germany brought wind speeds of 190 km / h gusts.