An airport worker in the Philippines has reported seeing one hundred bodies lying in the streets in just one town after Super Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the country.
At least 20 more were confirmed dead on Saturday but there are fears for hundreds more after the tropical cyclone smashed through the country with winds gusting up to 170mph.
Manila-based journalist Mike Cohen told Sky News: "We are thinking (the death toll will be) in the higher hundreds.
A man walks amid shattered homes in Tacloban "The video images that we are seeing are so gruesome we cannot show them. There are bodies piled up upon bodies in several areas.
"This is from Leyte and Samar provinces. We are still not through the other four provinces."
Dozens of towns and villages are thought to have been inundated with water after storm surges flooded low-lying areas, drowning many it their path.
A mother weeps beside the dead body of her son TV pictures showed cars, trees and rubble from houses strewn across streets after they were picked up by giant waves and carried inland.
One survivor said: "We thought it was a tsunami."
"Almost all houses were destroyed, many are totally damaged. Only a few are left standing," said Major Rey Balido, a spokesman for the national disaster agency.
Women walk past fallen trees and destroyed houses on Leyte Island A British team of humanitarian experts is due to fly out to the far eastern country to help the UK Government decide what aid to send.
An appeal launched by the British Red Cross has already raised more than £100,000.
About a million people who were evacuated because they were living in the typhoon's path have been returning to find out what is left of their houses.
Residents carry the body of a loved one Hundreds of thousands are said to have lost their homes.
Many of the most heavily damaged areas are still to be contacted because power and telephone lines are down, suggesting the final death toll could be much higher.
Captain John Andrews, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said he had spoken to colleagues in some of the affected areas by radio who had told him there were bodies lying in the street.
Soldiers walk outside of Tacloban's shattered airport terminal There were "100-plus dead, lying on the streets, with 100 plus injured" in Tacloban, the airport worker had told him.
Tacloban is the capital of Leyte, a large island of about two million people that suffered a direct hit from Haiyan on Friday morning when the storm was at its strongest.
Leyte Island, about 350miles south of the capital Manila, is one of five islands that was in the path of the super typhoon.
Children ran and cowered in terror as the typhoon hit A news team for local television network GMA reported counting at least 20 bodies in a church, 20 more at a pier and a further 11 that had been washed ashore, including one child.
An AFP photographer who reached the city aboard a military plane said large areas of Tacloban had been flattened.
Minnie Portales, a spokesman for the aid agency World Vision, said: "As we wait for early reports from some of the hardest-hit provinces, we fear for the worst. This could be very bad."
A map showing the path of the typhoon and affected islands At one point before it hit land the super typhoon had been even stronger, with winds gusting up to 235mph, which made it among the most powerful ever.
Meteorologists said that it had slowed to 100mph after passing over the Philippines but could pick up strength again as it sweeps across the South China Sea toward Vietnam.
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese have been moved away from coastal areas as authorities prepared for Haiyan to make landfall around 10am Sunday.
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