Residents gather coins and other salvageable materials from the ruins of houses.

Survivors carrying their belongings walk past destroyed houses in Tacloban.

The national government and disaster agency have yet to confirm the fatalities.

A pregnant woman cooks a meal inside a building overlooking destroyed houses after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban.

A building whose cement walls were brought down as winds of up to 170mph smashed across Leyte Island, central Philippines.

Haiyan, a category five typhoon that churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west.

Overturned vehicles in Tacloban city.

Beach front communities were among those devastated.

A child is returned home after leaving an evacuation site in Tacloban.

Residents walk past a truck slammed on a tree.

Survivors who lost their homes use a Jeepney public bus as shelter.

A village hall was pushed into a river when a riverbank collapsed.

Women walk among downed trees.

A helicopter hovers above the wasteland left by the typhoon's path.

Children being cared for at an emergency centre.

A Philippine flag is erected amid wrecked homes.

A shot showing the scale of the devastation in just a tiny fraction of the affected area.

The roofs of houses in Iloilo were lifted off.

Many homes were submerged due to the storm surge.

A victim is carried to a morgue by residents.

Authorities warned that more than 12 million people were at risk from the typhoon.

Coffins are left on a street

A woman mourns next to the dead body of her husband and other corpses

A boy carries away supplies he has collected from rescue workers