The Philippines evacuated tens of thousands of people from their homes and cancelled dozens of flights on Saturday, as a super typhoon threatened to unleash heavy rains and powerful winds that could trigger floods and storm surges.

The Philippines is once more bracing for a major storm as Super Typhoon Man-yi heads for the archipelago nation, carrying gusts of up to 230 kilometers per hour (around 140 miles per hour). Man-yi is expected to make landfall late on Saturday or early Sunday in the island province of Catanduanes as the sixth major storm to hit the Philippines in the past month.

The sixth storm to hit the Philippines in a month has been upgraded to a "super typhoon" as hundreds of thousands of people left their homes in ordered evacuations.