Typhoon Kalmaegi heads for Vietnam after killing 114 in Philippines – live updates

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Rescue teams get to work while displaced Filipinos rest in shelter – latest imagespublished at 09:46 GMT

Before making landfall in Vietnam, Kalmaegi left a trail of devastation in the Philippines – and at least 114 people dead.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has declared a state of calamity – the threshold of which involves mass casualty, major damage to property, and disruption to means of livelihoods and the normal way of life for people in the affected areas.

The typhoon, known locally as Tino, ripped through the populous island of Cebu, submerging entire towns and sweeping cars through the streets. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, others are resting in shelters.

Here are some of the latest images we’re seeing:

Recue teamImage source, EPA/Shutterstock

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Emergency responders work on retrieving a body at the site of a landslide in Cebu City

Affected residents take shelter inside a classroom, at a school that has been converted into an evacuation centreImage source, Getty Images

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Kalmaegi has displaced more than 400,000 in the Philippines

A man walks along a muddy street where cars piled up after being swept away in floods brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi pile up at a subdivision in Bacayan, Cebu CitImage source, Reuters

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Streets are covered in mud and images show piles of cars

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