CORRECTION: Report That Typhoon Haiyan Death Toll Rose To 4,460 Was Incorrect, AP Says

Report That Typhoon Death Toll Nearly Doubled Was Incorrect
Children run towards a U.S. military aircraft as it arrives to distribute aid to Typhoon Haiyan survivors in the destroyed town of Guiuan, Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Aid was beginning to reach some of the half-million people displaced by Typhoon Haiyan that tore across several islands in eastern Philippines six days ago, killing thousands of people. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Children run towards a U.S. military aircraft as it arrives to distribute aid to Typhoon Haiyan survivors in the destroyed town of Guiuan, Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Aid was beginning to reach some of the half-million people displaced by Typhoon Haiyan that tore across several islands in eastern Philippines six days ago, killing thousands of people. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

On Thursday, the Associated Press corrected a report that had claimed the official death toll of Typhoon Haiyan had nearly doubled to 4,460 people. The news agency clarified that the 4,460 figure released by the U.N. referred to evacuation centers instead of fatalities.

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