Hong Kong: Hong Kong began a massive clean-up on Monday after Typhoon Mangkhut raked the city, shredding trees and bringing damaging floods in a trail of destruction that left dozens dead in the Philippines and millions evacuated in southern China.
The death toll in the Philippines, where the north of the main island of Luzon was mauled by fierce winds and rain, reached 65. It was expected to rise further as frantic rescuers pulled bodies from a massive landslide in the mountain town of Itogon.
The landslide buried an emergency shelter which was being used by miners and their families.
Eleven bodies have been pulled from the rubble and up to 40 more may still be trapped.
“We believe that those people there, maybe 99 percent, are already dead,” the town's mayor Victorio Palangdan told reporters.
More than 155,000 people remain in evacuation centres in the Philippines two days after the typhoon struck, said national police spokesman Benigno Durana. Farms across northern Luzon, which produces much of the nation's rice and corn, were under muddy floodwater, their crops ruined just a month before harvest.
