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Filipino soldiers assist a child to board a truck bound for evacuation centers in Legazpi City, Albay province, southern Manila, Philippines, 14 December 2015. More than 700,000 people were evacuated in the Philippines as Typhoon Melor slammed into the country's eastern coast, civil defence officials said. Melor was packing maximum sustained winds of 150 kilometres per hour (kph) and gusts of up to 185 kph when it hit land over Northern Samar province, the weather bureau said. The bureau warned against storm surges, forcing 724,105 people to flee their homes in the wastern provinces of Albay and Sorsogon. (Photo by Zalrian Sayat/EPA)
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