More than 400,000 evacuated as Super Typhoon Man-yi batters Philippines - Super Typhoon makes landfall with sustained winds of up to 125mph, destroying houses and powerlines on its path

Authorities took no chances before Man-yi hit and ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from their homes.

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 major storm to pound the Southeast Asian country in less than a month.