A plane carrying humanitarian aid from the UK has arrived in the Philippines.

It landed at midnight local time, bringing almost 9,000 shelter kits for those made homeless by Friday's devastating typhoon.

The UK is also sending an emergency team of 12 medical staff at the request of the Philippine Department of Health.

The stricken country's president has said the estimated death toll of 10,000 was "too high", but the UN estimates 11 million have been affected in some way.

Friday's Typhoon Haiyan was one of the worst storms on record

President Benigno Aquino says the number of people killed is more likely to be up 2,500.

More than half a million have been displaced.

The UK kits, which arrived at Cebu airport overnight, contain plastic sheeting, rope and rope tensioners.

They were flown to the Philippines from UK stores in Dubai.

Officials from the Department for International Development (DfID) said each one would keep a family of five sheltered.

It will be down to charity World Vision - one of 14 aid organisations that make up the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) - to distribute the kits.

(Source: BBC)