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.
Villagers reinforce a house in the coastal town of Aparri, Cagayan province, Philippines, 07 November 2024. According to the latest forecast from Philippine state weather bureau on 07 November, Yinxing intensifies continuously up to super typhoon strength over the Philippine Sea. Typhoon Marce (international name: Yinxing) was spotted 175 kilometers east of Aparri, Cagayan province moving west northwestward slowly, packing maximum sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and gusts of up to 205 kph. EPA-EFE/FRANCIS R. MALASIG