Typhoon Haiyan: Flow Of Foreign Aid Quickens

More aid is reaching the desperate victims of Typhoon Haiyan, as the international relief effort continues to build momentum.

But as vital help arrives for more survivors, some in the worst-hit areas say they still have not seen any aid since the typhoon struck on Friday. 

The Philippines Government said it had received more than £56m in foreign aid so far and praised the "generous and swift response".

Britain's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal reached £13m within 24 hours of its launch.

The city of Tacloban was destroyed in the disaster

DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said: "People have given so generously in such a short space of time."

The United Nation's World Food Programme said nearly 50,000 people around the stricken city of Tacloban received rice in family food packages on Wednesday.

The packs include three kilogrammes of canned food and rice - enough to feed a family for a few days, the WFP said.

More packages will be handed out in the coming days as relief operations continue to reach more of the 11 million people affected by the disaster.

Residents take shelter in a Tacloban church

The Salvation Army UK and Ireland has launched its own appeal and a team in the Philippines is making arrangements with the Air Force to transport food parcels, water and medical supplies to Tacloban in in Leyte province.

Britain's first flight delivering humanitarian aid arrived earlier on Wednesday, the Government has said.

A chartered Boeing 777 carrying 8,836 shelter kits from UK Government stores in Dubai landed in Cebu City and will be delivered to those in worst-affected areas.

A team of US Marines already on the ground has given out relief supplies for the effort, called Operation Damayan, or Help in Time of Need.

A US Marine coordinates the loading of water at an air base near Manila

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos applauded the international community's reaction, but said much more needed to be done in a disaster of such magnitude.

Hundreds of thousands of people have had their homes damaged or destroyed and are in desperate need of food, water and shelter after the typhoon smashed into the island nation, leaving thousands dead.

Logistical bottlenecks have been holding up relief goods from reaching parts of the disaster zone.

Sky's Asia Correspondent Mark Stone, in the ruined village of Tabontabon in Leyte, said "at the moment no-one is here to help".

"Those who survived desperately need help. There is nothing like enough supplies or aid here and there is a depressing lack of co-ordination."

Homeless Tacloban residents inside a school

Tabontabon community leader Miguel Gamez said: "What we really need is food, safe drinking water and materials for us to build our houses."

In nearby Tacloban, the situation is also dire, with essential supplies low and increasingly desperate survivors jostling for aid.

Gunshots also reportedly forced the delay of a mass burial of victims in the ruined city.

Mayor Alfred Romualdez said: "We had finished digging the mass burial site. We had the truck loaded with bodies but there was some shooting. They could not proceed."

Eight people were also crushed to death in Alangalang town, 10 miles from Tacloban, after a huge crowd of typhoon survivors rushed a government rice warehouse, causing a wall to collapse.

The incident underlined the increasing sense of fear and desperation setting in among those battling to survive the aftermath of the typhoon.

Locals in Tacloban also reported seeing members of the army firing guns, as well as armed civilians in the street.

Meanwhile, it was reported that a 13-year-old boy who was walking alone through the city at night was slashed across the neck and stabbed in the stomach.

The country is struggling to cope with the number of bodies

The latest official government death toll stands at 2,344, with 3,804 injured and a further 79 missing.

But authorities have said they have not come close to accurately assessing the number of bodies lying amid the rubble or swept out to sea.

President Benigno Aquino has declared a "state of national calamity", allowing the government to impose price controls and quickly release emergency funds.

The US and the UK are sending warships to the Philippines, which will reach the region in the next few days.

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