8 killed as super typhoon strikes Philippines

MANILA — 

At slightest 8 radical were killed arsenic Super Typhoon Man-Yi deed the Philippine archipelago implicit the weekend, unleashing fierce winds and beardown rains that triggered landslides and tempest surges, authorities said.

Man-Yi, the sixth tempest to deed the state successful a span of 1 month, made landfall successful the eastbound state of Catanduanes connected Saturday, but weakened arsenic it moved crossed the main Luzon land and was aboriginal downgraded to a typhoon arsenic it exited the landmass Monday.

A household of seven, including an eight-year-old girl, died aft a landslide successful a bluish provincial municipality successful Nueva Vizcaya buried their home, the catastrophe bureau successful the country said.

In Daet municipality successful Camarines Norte province, a 72-year-old antheral was killed successful a vehicular mishap caused by hanging cables owed to the storm's beardown winds, the provincial catastrophe bureau said.

"One casualty is 1 casualty excessively many. So, that is unfortunate," President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told reporters, referring to the decease successful Camarines Norte. "We volition present transportation connected with the rescue of those isolated areas and the continuing alleviation for those who person been displaced."

On average, astir 20 tropical storms onslaught the Philippines each year, bringing dense rain, beardown winds, flooding, and landslides.

Man-Yi is approaching Vietnam with maximum sustained winds of 110 kilometers per hr (68.4 mph) and gusts of up to 135 kph (84 mph).

In rice-producing Nueva Ecija state successful bluish Luzon, farmlands and villages were flooded, worrying farmers specified arsenic Danilo Dagdagan owed to the interaction connected crops and livelihood.

"The floodwater from the typhoon and the surrounding provinces gushed present due to the fact that the elevation of the onshore present is lower," Dagdagan told Reuters wrong the surviving country of his flooded home. "It makes our lives difficult, it's hard for america particularly for those without capable food."

International assistance has poured successful to assistance the Philippines successful its alleviation operations, including from the U.S.

Visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said helium has authorized U.S. forces to supply nonstop enactment to respond to the ace typhoon. "We've besides secured different cardinal dollars successful urgent humanitarian aid, and that volition assistance surge assistance to the Philippine people."

In October, Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey triggered floods and landslides that killed 162 people, with 22 inactive missing, authorities figures show.