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

More than 1.2 million residents evacuated ahead of the storm, including thousands in the capital, Manila, as authorities issued warnings of storm surges, flooding, and landslides

A super typhoon barreled toward the Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, as more than half a million people sought shelter from the latest in a string of powerful storms to threaten the country.