Aussie tells of post-typhoon horror

Mark Kita was with his fiance Lovella were in a hotel when Typhoon Haiyan hit at its most furious. They are at the Cebu airport waiting to catch a flight to Manila. Picture: Daniel Hartley-Allen Source: News Limited

TACLOBAN is now a toxic city of the dead, according to Australian Mark Kita, who was with his fiancé Lovella Montecina in a hotel when Typhoon Haiyan hit at its most furious.

"On Friday morning, by 6.30, we didn't feel safe because the whole building was wobbling," he said of the moment the biggest storm in recent history struck the XYZ Hotel in the island city's downtown.

"We went downstairs and while waiting for out breakfast the storm surge came in, pushed in the windows and came up to the second floor," he said.

"The building lost roofing and glass, but the shanties along the coast were all destroyed. In that one area alone they're saying there's 1000 dead."

Looters are now battling police and Mr Kita said the sound of gunfire has rung through the past two nights.

Mr Kita, from Bendigo, was on holiday visiting Lovella, who he will marry in coming months.

After the storm struck they walked together 10km from the hotel to her parents' house, past scenes of unimaginable destruction, with the corpses of people and animals lining the streets.

"Yesterday when we were walking back from the hotel they were picking up bodies in trucks. There's a stench throughout a lot of the city," Mr Kita said.

The pair said they scrambled to catch a flight out of Tacloban to the neighbouring island of Cebu, lucky to get aboard a commercial plane that had just delivered water and food.

They said there was nothing left for them in the city of around 100,000 except for a constant sense of danger.

At Cebu airport Australians were making their way to Manila and trying to reach home. Remy Mills, 49, from Mernda in North Melbourne, was holidaying in the Moving Pig Hotel in Lapu Lapu, on the island of Cebu.

"When it hit hard, we went in the basement," said Ms Mills, who has lived in Australia for 30 years. "It was so scary," she said after the luxury hotel lost its roof. "I grew up in the Philippines but I have never experienced that before."

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