Philippines urges evacuations ahead of Christmas Day typhoon

  24 December 2016    Read: 1138
Philippines urges evacuations ahead of Christmas Day typhoon
Philippine authorities urged hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes on Saturday as a strong typhoon threatened to wallop the country`s east coast on Christmas Day.
Nock-Ten is expected to be packing winds of 222 kilometers per hour (138 miles per hour) when it makes landfall on Catanduanes, a remote island of 250,000 people, on Sunday, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center said.

It is then expected to hit the country`s main island of Luzon, including the capital Manila, on Monday. The Philippine weather service warned of potentially deadly two-meter (six-and-a-half-foot) waves along the east coast, as well as landslides and flash floods from heavy rains. (AFP)

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