DHAKA: The Philippines’ post-typhoon reconstruction could take as long as 10 years, with the leadership of president Benigno Aquino put to a test amid complex problems such as property rights, missing title deeds and land zoning.

Experts said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.

The task will likely take longer and cost more than the rebuilding of Indonesia’s Aceh province after the 2004 tsunami, they said.

Super typhoon Haiyan wiped out or damaged practically everything in its path as it swept ashore on November 8, with 7m storm surges destroying around 90 percent of the city of Tacloban in Leyte province alone.

Haiyan killed at least 5,500 people, left more than 1,700 missing, displaced as many as four million and destroyed around $563 million worth of crops and infrastructure.

BDST: 1949 HRS, NOV 27, 2013