About 400,000 displaced as Super Typhoon Man-yi batters Philippines

About fractional a cardinal radical successful the Philippines were forced to fly their homes arsenic almighty typhoon Man-yi slammed into the eastbound land province of Catanduanes wrecking houses and causing towering tidal surges.

The tempest made landfall connected Saturday nighttime with sustained winds of up to 125mph and gusts of up to 149mph. The country's upwind bureau had warned of a "potentially catastrophic and life-threatening situation" successful provinces on its path.

Man-yi, locally known arsenic Pepito, weakened somewhat aft hitting onshore to get implicit the coastal waters of Camarines Norte state by 8am (local time) connected Sunday, the Southeast Asian country's upwind bureau said.

Catanduanes was near without powerfulness aft the tempest knocked down trees and energy posts, and disaster-response teams were checking however galore much houses were damaged successful summation to those impacted by erstwhile storms, helium said.

There were nary contiguous reports of casualties from the typhoon, which was forecast to further stroke north-westwards crossed bluish Luzon. "Significant weakening volition hap during the transition of this tropical cyclone implicit mainland Luzon today," the upwind bureau said.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr had asked his furniture and provincial officials to brace for "the worst-case scenario".

"We request tin roofs and different operation materials, speech from food. Villagers archer america present that they inactive haven't gotten up from the past tempest and were pinned down again by this typhoon," Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation serviceman successful Catanduanes, told the Associated Press.

“Along a main boulevard here, the tidal surges went up to much than 23ft adjacent the seaside houses. It looked truly scary," helium said.

Nearly fractional of the land province's 80,000 radical were sheltering successful evacuation centres, the authorities said.

More than 400,000 radical heeded evacuation orders and took shelters astatine schools, malls and different evacuation centres, officials said. "It is much unsafe present for those successful landslide-prone areas due to the fact that the crushed has been saturated by the consecutive typhoons," Ariel Nepomuceno, the caput of the civilian defence was quoted by BBC arsenic saying.

At slightest 26 home airports and 2 planetary airports were temporarily unopen and inter-island ferry and cargo services were suspended owed to unsmooth seas, stranding thousands of passengers and commuters, according to the country's civilian aviation authority.

An estimated 750,000 radical person taken refuge successful shelters owed to Man-yi and 2 erstwhile storms mostly successful the bluish Philippines, officials said.

About 20 tropical storms onslaught the Philippines each twelvemonth connected average, bringing dense rain, beardown winds and deadly landslides. In October, floods and landslides brought by Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey killed 162 radical with 22 missing, authorities figures show.

In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, 1 of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, near much than 7,300 radical dormant oregon missing, flattened full villages and caused ships to tally aground and smash into houses successful the cardinal Philippines.

Additional reporting by agencies