MANILA, Philippines—Typhoon Kammuri barreled across the Philippines with fierce winds and rain on Dec. 3, leaving at least four people dead, forcing hundreds of thousands of villagers to abandon high-risk communities, and prompting officials to shut down Manila’s international airport.
Kammuri toppled trees and electrical posts, ripped off tin roofs, and battered a provincial airport as it blew across island provinces in the southern fringes of the main northern Luzon island before blowing into the South China Sea. It weakened but remained dangerous, with maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometers (81 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 200 kph (124 mph) as it exited, forecasters said.
