Typhoon Haiyan death toll soars above 5,000 in Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan death toll soars above 5,000 in Philippines

PanARMENIAN.Net - The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan has risen above 5,000, officials in the Philippines say, two weeks after the devastating storm hit the country, according to BBC News.

The country's National Disaster Agency says that 5,209 people are now known to have lost their lives, with many more still missing.

That makes Haiyan, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, the deadliest natural disaster in the country's history.

Floods in the Ormoc region in 1991 killed 5,101 people.

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