A second typhoon in a week is churning toward the Philippines, with residents in its path warned to flee the looming destructive winds and life-threatening storm surges.

Typhoon Kalmaegi slammed into Vietnam on Thursday (November 6), forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and order people to stay indoors, two days after the storm started sweeping across the...

The storm made landfall in central Vietnam late on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes, and triggering power outages, before weakening as it moved inland.

Typhoon Kalmaegi damaged homes and uprooted trees in central Vietnam late Thursday after cutting a path of destruction through the Philippines, where it killed nearly 200 people. Kalmaegi, one of the strongest typhoons on record to hit Vietnam,

Vietnam saw widespread flooding and damage, with five people killed, while in the Philippines least 188 people were killed.

Across the central Philippines, Kalmaegi killed at least 114 people and left 127 missing in the deadliest natural disaster to hit the country this year.