TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — A United States Marine general says he saw bodies everywhere during a helicopter flight over the region struck by powerful Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines four days ago.

Speaking after a two-hour flight Monday, November 11, 2013 with Filipino forces, U.S. Marine Brigadier General Paul Kennedy said every building and house he saw was destroyed or severely damaged.

"We saw bodies everywhere," he said. Some were floating in the water, others in a schoolyard.

He said trees were uprooted for miles around, roads were impassable and power lines were down.

"I don't know how else you can describe total devastation," Kennedy said at the airport in the badly hit Philippine city of Tacloban.

Two U.S. Marine C-130 cargo planes were parked nearby, their engines running, unloading food and water from the capital, Manila.

 

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