More than 150,000 people took shelter in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday as powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in a region hit by some of the country’s deadliest storms.
The typhoon, with winds of 150km/h (93 mph) and gusts of up to 205km/h, made first contact in Dinagat Islands province, part of the Visayas island chain, before 11pm local time, the national weather service said.
Barely an hour earlier, 34-year-old Miriam Vargas sat in the darkness with her two children after…
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