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

Typhoon Man-yi was bringing heavy rain and powerful winds to the Philippines on Sunday, hours after making landfall in a nation still recovering from a series of recent storms that killed more than 160 people and caused widespread damage.