Ten years after typhoon, Tacloban rises from the ruins

Mayor Alfred Romualdez (cnetre) and other city officials inspecting the site of a proposed memorial park remembering the Super Typhoon Haiyan disaster in the outskirts of Tacloban city. - AFP

TACLOBAN, Philippines: Filipino widow Agatha Ando has learned to laugh again in the decade after Super Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the central Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving millions homeless.

Fierce winds tore apart houses and toppled trees as tsunami-like waves whipped up by the storm obliterated mostly poor coastal communities on Nov 8, 2013.