Tacloban, Philippine province capital of Leyte, turned into a chaos as more than 3,000 tried to escape from the typhoon Haiyan devastation boarding two Philippine Air Force C-130s early on Tuesday.
Soldiers and police tried to hold the crowd back, which broke through an iron fence trying to assure a seat in one of the aircrafts while thousands suffer lack of water, food, dry clothes and housing.
"We need help. Nothing is happening," said a 81-year-old woman, who wasn't able to board on of the airplanes. "We haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon."
Yesterday, officials reported 1,774 people have died so far fearing this mark will rise to 10,000.
Tacloban is in total darkness, people is breaking into stores looting for what they need.
"I know it's not good to take but we are desperate and hungry," said Veronica Lucerno, who was part of a mass raid that broke into a famous department store.
Tacloban was a city of about 220,000 people on Leyte island. Now, the city is in ruins with no electricity in most of the areas and a poor amount of medicine supplies as many corpses are sadly decomposing in the street and many other still trapped in the debris.
Philippine air force has been sending three C-130s back and forth to Tacloban from dawn to dusk from Cebu island delivering 400,000 pounds of supplies by Tuesday; nevertheless, still not enough,
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