The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year flattened houses and triggered landslides in remote towns on Monday, killing at least one person and leaving 23 others missing, authorities said.

With wind gusts of 200 kilometers an hour, authorities said they feared many people may have died as Typhoon Labuyo (International codename: Utor) swept across coastal and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines.

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