More than a thousand dead victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda lay unburied on Saturday, seven weeks after the region was battered by the Philippines’ deadliest storm, residents living alongside the stench said.
About 1,400 corpses, in sealed black body bags swarming with flies, lay on a muddy open field in San Isidro, a farming village on the outskirts of Tacloban City in the province of Leyte, an Agence France-Presse reporter saw.
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