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13-07-2026
MANILA: Dozens of people have been killed in landslides in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi bears down on the region.
A landslide early on Friday killed 10 people as it hit Malapatan in the southern Sarangani province of the island of Mindanao, according to the Philippine News Agency. At least five people were killed in another landslide in the southern province of Lanao del Sur, local media reported.
Known in the Philippines as Inday, the typhoon entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Wednesday but weakened as it continued on a northwest track across the Philippine Sea, close to Northern Luzon.
Some of the victims in Sarangani were related, Malapatan Mayor Salway Sumbo Jr said in a statement, adding that parts of the village were being evacuated as heavy rainfall continued across the region.
The Philippine weather agency PAGASA issued alerts saying that while Typhoon Bavi would not make landfall in the country, its tail end could bring heavy rainfall and widespread flooding to several areas, including the capital, Manila.
The super typhoon smashed into the United States’ Pacific territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Monday, causing infrastructure damage but leaving no casualties.
It is now bearing down on other countries of the region, prompting evacuation efforts and other preparations.
Bavi is expected to dump rain in northern and eastern Taiwan, as well as parts of Japan on Saturday, before making landfall in China.
Hundreds of people have already been evacuated from their homes and schools, and offices have been closed ahead of the expected storm in parts of Taiwan.
Journalist Barnaby Lo reported that heavy rains hit Japan’s coastal Ishikawa prefecture on Friday morning as many prepared for a heavier storm.
Southern China is still reeling from Typhoon Maysak, which hit earlier this week, resulting in flooding that killed 39 people after a breached dam inundated the city of Nanning.
Typhoon Bavi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Inday, is a large, powerful, and long-tracking tropical cyclone that is currently in the Philippine Sea. It is the ninth named tropical storm, third typhoon and second violent typhoon of the 2026 Pacific typhoon season. Bavi was the second violent typhoon of the season to affect the Mariana Islands, after Typhoon Sinlaku made landfall on Tinian in April.
The origins of Bavi started as a disturbance just east-southeast of Kwajalein on June 25, over favorable conditions. Seven days later, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the disturbance as Tropical Depression 09W. It later received the name Bavi by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) early on July 2 as it continued to organize over very warm sea surface temperatures and low vertical wind shear. Both agencies later upgraded Bavi into a typhoon as it quickly intensified. Rapid intensification ensued, and Bavi became a super typhoon less than a day later as a Category 5-equivalent typhoon according to the JTWC. An eyewall replacement cycle ensued causing some slight weakening overnight on July 4, but the typhoon quickly re-strengthened the following day before it made landfall on Rota in Northern Mariana Islands at peak intensity; the JMA estimated maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h (125 mph) and a central pressure of 910 hPa (27 inHg), while the JTWC assessed peak 1-minute sustained winds of 285 km/h (180 mph) and central pressure of 901 hPa (26.6 inHg). Late on July 7, PAGASA gave the local name Inday even though it was about to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) until it did so at 03:00 PHT of July 8 (19:45 UTC of the previous day). (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
