Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday, as authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas.

MANILA (Nov 14): Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines’ already disaster-ravaged north today, as authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from coastal areas. Usagi made landfall in the town of Baggao in Cagayan province at 0530 GMT with winds of 175 kilometres an hour, the national weather service said — the fifth storm toRead More

MANILA: Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday (Nov 14), as authorities rushed to evacuate thousands of people from flood-prone areas.

Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening into a tropical storm and blowing out to the South China Sea, officials said Tuesday as they braced for another approaching storm. The Philippines has scrambled to deal with multiple calamities wreaked by…

Thousands of people are being forcibly evacuated from 2,500 villages as another typhoon hits areas of the northern Philippines already devastated by floods and landslides from three storms in less than a month.