Haiyan leaves trail of grief and despair in its wake A man cries on a packed aircraft as he and hundreds of other victims of super typhoon Haiyan are evacuated from Tacloban in the Philippines. There is nowhere to bury the dead. Estela Paragoso sits amid the ruins of St Peter's funeral home, refusing to leave the body of her husband. "We must have the funeral in his village, but there is nothing there, it is destroyed," she says, sobbing into a white cloth. I don't know what to do. As residents of Ormoc, the devastated port city of the central island of Leyte, struggle to find water and food, Mrs Paragoso, 30, says she will maintain the Philippine tradition of not leaving her loved one until a funeral can be arranged. The devastated funeral parlour in the city of Ormoc. But the village of her husband, Renate Paragoso, 34, near the town of Kananga, which is 40 kilometres north of Ormoc, has had almost all its houses and buildings destroyed. Mr Paragoso, an electricity worker, was killed while trying to restore power in the wake of super typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, which has killed thousands and affected almost 10 million people. Elsewhere on Leyte, the island where US general Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his vow to return to the Philippines in World War II, the dead are being bulldozed into mass graves. Inside St Peter's, staff have done their best to clean and dress Mr Paragoso in nice clothes in the funeral parlour, which no longer has walls or much of its roof. Family ties are strong in the Philippines and eight members of Mrs Paragoso's family sit with her in the blazing sun, which has emerged over the central Philippines after days of torrential rain. That has enabled rescue teams to increase their push into remote areas, where the extent of last Friday's storm is still unfolding. Red Cross volunteer Eric Jones says villages on the north-west coast of Leyte have been wiped out and survivors have so far received no help. "It's absolute chaos," he said. "Nobody expected it to be as bad as this ... People knew there was a typhoon but were not expecting winds in excess of 200 kilometres per hour," he said. Ormoc doctor Edmund Kierulf said the situation in the city's hospital had become dire as medicines had run out and sick and injured people had to be turned away. "We expected outside help to arrive before this but there has been none," he said. There are scenes of chaotic desperation in Ormoc, a city of 191,000. Police with automatic weapons were guarding the city's only petrol station and people queued for blocks at ATMs with no cash. Meanwhile, Mrs Paragoso waits to bury her husband and tries to care for their three children.