TACLOBAN: Emily Sagalis cried tears of joy after giving birth to a “miracle” girl near this typhoon-ravaged city, then named the baby after her mother who went missing in the storm.

The girl was born on Monday in Tacloban’s destroyed airport compound that was turned into a makeshift medical center, with her bed a piece of dirty plywood resting amid dirt, broken glass, twisted metal, nails and other debris.

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