MANILA: Super Typhoon Man-yi battered parts of the Philippines with powerful winds and intense rains as it made its way across the main island on Sunday (Nov 17).

Typhoon Man-yi crossed central Philippines to enter the East Sea Sunday night, packing winds of up to 149 km per hour, and is forecast to weaken at sea.

A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the sixth