Watch: Typhoon Mungkhut triggered floods and landslides across the Philippines, Hong Kong and China
It will take a long time to rebuild the damaged areas.
Update: We’re at Itogon, #Philippines. Landslides buried a village here, trapping miners in a bunkhouse and people in a church. Rescue workers trying to clear mud and debris, but the scale of the disaster is both wide and sad. @nbcnews @todayshow @NBCNightlyNews @msnbc #Mangkhut pic.twitter.com/uzwD7mmPNk
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) September 17, 2018
Typhoon Mangkhut has left a wide trail of destruction, ranging from the Philippines to China, with a number of people dead and thousands evacuated.
The storm battered the Philippines over the weekend, where more than 60 people were killed, many of them in landslides owing to heavy rains. Rescue workers recovered more than 40 bodies from the rubble on Monday after a shelter collapsed in the mining town of Itogon in Benguet province.
#EXCLUSIVE| What is reportedly the oldest pine tree in Baguio, #Philippines – estimated to be more than 200 years old – is seen swept away by a landslide as Typhoon #Mangkhut brought torrential rain and flooding.
— NOW News (@NOWNews18) September 16, 2018
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@IOM_Philippines assessment team #drone footage of #Itogon where landslides forced evacuations of 370 families with over 30 confirmed dead and about 60 missing. @UNmigration #Mangkhut #OmpongPH pic.twitter.com/1rB4tQvg9X
— Andrew Lind (@seekingalberti) September 17, 2018
In Hong Kong, heavy wind and rain caused transport systems and air travel to be clogged and commuters were left stranded for hours.
We might have survived the monster typhoon #mangkhut yesterday but the gov’s decision of not declaring a holiday today appears to be more disastrous.. pix taken by Sam Tsang of @SCMPNews in Tai Wai Station. poor Hongkongers... pic.twitter.com/rgeg7QvEYN
— Jeffie Lam (@jeffielam) September 17, 2018
The typhoon weakened as it made its way across Southern China and was downgraded to a tropical storm. The South China Morning Post posted videos of workers clearing fallen trees from roads in the Guangdong province. Cleaning up began in Macau even as 20,000 households were left without power on Monday.