Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong, Macau and coastal mainland China Sunday. This year's strongest storm, equivalent at its peak to a Category 5 hurricane, hit the Philippines a day before as a supertyphoon and has caused dozens of deaths. Photo: Xinhua via APHundreds of rescue workers dug through mud and debris in the Philippines on Monday, seeking survivors from a monster typhoon that also caused widespread damage in Hong Kong and the southern China coast. The mud was hardening two days after Supertyphoon Mangkhut blasted the northern Philippines, killing at least 65 people, most of them miners on the Cordillera mountain range of northern Luzon island. Officials said they hadn’t heeded calls to evacuate, instead choosing to wait out the storm in a bunkhouse that doubled as a...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 17, 2018 11:55 UTC