Monday, November 18, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Begin an Odyssey to Find Their Families in the Philippines - WSJ.com

Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Begin an Odyssey to Find Their Families in the Philippines - WSJ.com: CEBU CITY, Philippines—Just after nightfall, three men jostled with hundreds of other people for spots aboard a rust-stained ferry leaving this port for an island where they hoped to find loved ones alive—or prepare to bury them.

Typhoon Haiyan ripped across the Philippines a week earlier, focusing much of its wrath on Samar Island. A few hundred of those on the Cebu dock found their way aboard the Samar-bound 34-year-old ferry, the Blessed Stars.

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