At least one person is dead and more than 150,000 others have been evacuated as Typhoon Kalmaegi sweeps through the central Philippines.

Kalmaegi was blowing over the city of Sagay in central Negros Occidental province with sustained winds of up to 150km/h and gusts up to 185km/h after making landfall in the town of Silago in the eastern province of Southern Leyte.

Kalmaegi, the 20th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippines this year, was moving northwestward at 25km/h and was forecast to start shifting away from the western section of the archipelago into the South China Sea later on Tuesday.

An elderly villager drowned in floodwaters in Southern Leyte, where a province-wide power outage was also reported, officials said in an initial report without providing other details.

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