Typhoon Lupit threatens Philippines north

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Updated October 21, 2009 14:22:04

The Philippines is bracing for its third typhoon in four weeks, and residents in three zones in the north are on evacuation alert. Typhoon Lupit, or Rahmill as its locally known, is about 800 kilometres off the northeast corner of the Philippines, and contains winds of up to 196 kilometres an hour. The national weather bureau says if it makes landfall as predicted on Thursday, without weakening, it will be much stronger than typhoons Ketsana and Parma which killed more than 850 people and left hundreds of thousands of others displaced.

Presenter: Bo Hill
Speaker: Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto Torres Jr, spokesman, National Disaster Coordinating Council

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