THOUSANDS of families in Western Visayas region were evacuated on Friday as the region braces itself for the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan).

The evacuation took place as Yolanda made its first landfall in Guiuan town, Eastern Samar province on Friday dawn and began battering the Eastern Visayas region with heavy rains and strong winds of up to 275kph.

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