Typhoon Doksuri leaves at least 2 dead and displaces thousands in the northern Philippines

Typhoon Doksuri has blown ashore in a cluster of islands and lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain, leaving at least two villagers dead and displacing nearly 16,000 villagers as it blows tin roofs off rural houses, floods low-lying villages and knocks out power. The typhoon slammed into Fuga Island before dawn and later made landfall in another island off Aparri town in Cagayan province, where more than 15,000 people were evacuated from high-risk coastal villages. Schools and workplaces were shut down as a precaution. Tens of thousands of people in other northern provinces were affected the typhoon, which has a (700-kilometer-wide) 435-mile-wide band of wind and rain. Doksuri weakened slightly but remained dangerous.