10 years after 'Yolanda', Tacloban rises from ruins

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 07, 2023 12:19 am

WIDOW Agatha Ando has learned to laugh again in the decade after Super Typhoon 'Yolanda' ('Haiyan') smashed into the central Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving millions homeless.

Fierce winds tore apart houses and toppled trees as tsunami-like waves whipped up by the storm obliterated mostly poor coastal communities on Nov. 8, 2013.

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