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Looting Typhoon Haiyan survivors crushed to death in rice warehouse

NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images At least eight people (not shown) were killed when a wall collapsed on typhoon survivors that were looting a local warehouse in Tacloban. TACLOBAN, Philippines — An official says eight people were crushed to death when thousands of typhoon survivors stormed a government rice warehouse in the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines. National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez said ...

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Philippine president says Typhoon Haiyan death toll is lower

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan’s rampage through the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday as CNN reports two U.S. Citizens are among those killed. “Ten thousand, I think, is too much,” Aquino told CNN in an interview. “There was emotional drama involved with that particular estimate.” CNN, ...

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