At least 10,000 victims occurred in Leyte Island , in the town of Tacloban , and a more 200 deaths took place in the neighboring island of Samar .
But the force with which Haiyan hit Philippines , official figures reported only 1,000 deaths on Saturday.
The regional military commander , Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda , said the death toll "probably will increase " , after seeing the aerial photographs of the devastation caused by the typhoon, which is now headed to Vietnam.
The death toll could not be accurately determined at the moment, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras , adviser to President Benigno Aquino III , but said the figure is probably around that offered by Andrews . Soldiers working on the recovery of bodies .
Civil aviation authorities in Tacloban , a city of 200,000 people located about 580 kilometers ( 360 miles ) southeast of Manila, the airport reported that there was " ruined " by the swells , Andrews said .
The colonel of the U.S. Marine Corps Mike Wylie , who inspected the damage to the track before a possible U.S. assistance , said the damage to it were significant. Even so , military aircraft could land with emergency supplies said by the U.S. Secretary of State Washington JohnKerry to the media.
"The tide was high and significant structural damage and trees down ," said Wylie , a member of the U.S. Military Assistance - Philippines , based in Manila.
Forecasters said that when his vortex landfall , Haiyan had sustained winds of 235 kilometers per hour (147 miles per hour) and gusts of 275 kph (170 mph). That made him the most powerful typhoon so far this year , comparable to a Category 4 hurricane and near Category 5, the highest .
Typhoon Bopha in 2012 caused more than a thousand dead , 850 missing and affected six million citizens in Philippines.
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