Philippine authorities warned the public Sunday to take precautions for what could be the most powerful storm to hit the country this year.

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Powerful storm nearing Philippines: forecasters

by Staff Writers
Manila (AFP)

Philippine authorities warned the public Sunday to take precautions for what could be the most powerful storm to hit the country this year.

Packing gusts of up to 220 kilometres (136 miles) per hour, Typhoon Bopha was 1,000 kilometres southeast of the Philippines as of Sunday morning and forecast to make landfall between Tuesday and Wednesday, the state weather bureau said.

Heavy rain from the advancing storm was expected to hit the central Visayas region and the main southern island of Mindanao from Sunday night, it said.

“This is a powerful storm, perhaps the strongest this year, and we enjoin everyone to take precautionary measures,” the head of the country’s civil defence office, Benito Ramos, told AFP.

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