Super Typhoon Ragasa barrels through Philippines as rescuers work through night to evacuate residents
Super typhoon smashes Philippines, forcing evacuations and airport shutdowns
- Super Typhoon Ragasa, the most powerful storm recorded this year, made landfall in the Philippines on Monday, causing widespread evacuations and airport shutdowns across East Asia.
- The Category 5 super typhoon, with recorded winds of 270km/h, brought landslides and flooding to northern islands, resulting in at least three deaths and five people reported missing.
- The storm is currently travelling west towards Hong Kong, Macau, and southern China, prompting authorities to issue high-level typhoon warnings.
- Hong Kong has cancelled approximately 700 flights, and Shenzhen has ordered the evacuation of 400,000 residents in anticipation of the “potentially catastrophic” storm.
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