MANILA, Philippines — A
powerful typhoon
wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut
across the northern Philippines
on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month.
Typhoon Man-yi
slammed into the
eastern island province of Catanduanes
on Saturday night with sustained winds of up to 125 miles per hour and gusts of up to 149 mph. The country’s weather agency warned of a “potentially catastrophic and life-threatening situation” in provinces along its path.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from the typhoon, which was forecast to blow northwestward on Sunday
across northern Luzon, the archipelago’s most populous region
. The capital region of metropolitan Manila would likely be spared from a direct hit but was placed, along with outlying regions, under storm alerts and warned of dangerous coastal storm surges.
“The rain was minimal, but the wind was very strong and had this eerie howling sound,” Roberto Monterola, a disaster-mitigation officer in Catanduanes, told The Associated Press by telephone. “Along a main boulevard here, the tidal surges went up to more than 23 feet near the seaside houses. It looked really scary.”
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