A powerful typhoon named ‘Typhoon Doksuri’ landed in the Philippines on Wednesday, causing widespread landslides and flooding which has resulted in the death of at least one person, and injuring two more, a report by news outlet CNN said.
Typhoon Doskuri, which is known as ‘Egay’ in the Philippines, made landfall and has caused flooding in five different provinces in the Southeast Asian country, with at least a dozen rainfall-induced landslides ravaging the areas, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
The person who was killed, as well as the two injured people, are from the northern and central regions of Calabarzon and Western Visayas, as per the Council.
The strong typhoon made landfall at 3:10 AM local time (12:40 AM IST) near the remote northern Fuga Island, as per the Philippines’ weather department Pagasa.
Doksuri – which means ‘eagle’ in Korean – landed with winds of about 220 kilometres per hour, which makes it a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane, on a five-category scale – despite losing some of its ‘super typhoon’ intensity, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre in Hawaii.
Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, was predicted to experience ‘violent and life-threatening circumstances’ as extreme rainfall pounded the country.
As per the CNN report, Taiwan – where Doksuri has expected to land next – has cancelled some of its annual military drills on Tuesday as it prepares the face what could be the strongest typhoon to hit the island in four years.
However, Doksuri is expected to lose its strength as it tracks northwest, and will presumably drop to the equivalent of a category 1 Atlantic hurricane when it makes landfall on China’s southern coastline in the next two days.
The typhoon emergency warning in China has been raised to the highest level on Wednesday by the country’s National Meteorological Center.
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