Survivors pray for dead loved ones on 10th anniversary of Haiyan

Never forgotten: Nene Natividad, 49, praying for her six children whose names are engraved at a memorial wall for Haiyan victims at a cemetery in Tacloban City, Leyte province. — AFP

THE survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 6,000 people.

Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, unleashed winds of up to 315kph and whipped up tsunami-like waves that devastated central islands in the archipelago nation.