TYPHOON Marce (international name: Yinxing) slammed into the northeast tip of the Philippines on Thursday, uprooting trees and sending building materials flying, weeks after Severe Tropical Storm Kristine left at least 150 people dead.

More than 21,000 people across 200 villages in Cagayan province were evacuated in the hours before the mid-afternoon landfall, provincial disaster official Rueli Rapsing said.

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