Powerful typhoon slams into the eastern Philippines on Christmas Day

Last Updated Dec 25, 2016 10:31 PM EST
MANILA, Philippines — A powerful typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines on Christmas Day, spoiling the biggest holiday in Asia’s largest Catholic nation, where a governor offered roast pig to entice villagers to abandon family celebrations for emergency shelters.
Officials said Typhoon Nock-Ten killed at least one person and cut power to five provinces as well as displacing thousands of villagers and travelers in Asia’s Catholic bast