Link: Last radio broadcast during Haiyan

3 August 2014 · News

Almost nine months after super typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, the website Rappler relives the last radio broadcast on November 8 2013.

Jazmin Bonifacio at Radyo Diwa in Philippines was the last broadcaster on air in Leyte province before sea water flooded the station and cut her off-air.

Haiyan – known as Yolanda in the Philippines – was the strongest storm recorded at  , Haiyan killed at least 6,300 people in the country.

Several stations were forced off air.

Check out the Rappler story:

Relive Asia Radio Today’s coverage of the disaster here:

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