PHILIPPINE rescuers are clearing landslide-choked roads in an effort to reach isolated villages devastated by deadly Typhoon Utor, which has left tens of thousands of people homeless and killed two.
Eleven others are missing after Utor, the strongest storm this year, swept across the north of the country on Monday.
"Trees have fallen down, roofs have been torn off houses, electric poles and electric towers have collapsed," said National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council spokesman Reynaldo Balido, describing chaos from coastal towns to mountain villages hundreds of kilometres apart.
One of the top priorities for rescuers are three towns in Aurora province on the east coast of the main island of Luzon that were in Utor's direct path when it made landfall before dawn on Monday.
The towns, home to about 45,000 people, are still completely cut off, according to Aurora disaster chief Elson Egargue.
Rescuers deployed earthmoving equipment on Tuesday to clear the national highway leading to the three towns, which was blocked in several areas by landslides, floods and fallen tree trunks, Egargue said.
When Utor hit land, its wind gusts were reaching 200km/h an hour, making it the strongest storm this year, according to the weather bureau.
Utor has flattened at least 1,577 houses and more than 30,000 people are in temporary shelters on Tuesday, according to the disaster council.
However, this tally does not include many people in the three devastated towns in Aurora province, as authorities had not been able to assess the damage there.
The two confirmed fatalities were a man who drowned and another who was buried by a landslide.
Utor is now in the South China Sea tracking towards southern China, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
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