Four killed as Typhoon Nock-Ten pounds the Philippines

The Philippine National Police said three people died in Albay province, including a 57-year-old woman who was hit by a concrete wall inside her house on Sunday evening and an elderly couple who drowned in a river on Monday morning.
The fourth person, a man who was trying to evacuate his family in Mulanay town in Quezon province, died after being hit by a toppled palm tree, Quezon Governor David Suarez said.
Several transmission lines and facilities were knocked down, causing some areas to lose electricity.
As of Monday morning there were 383,097 people in evacuation centres, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.
The typhoon made landfall seven times, from Sunday evening until noon Monday, in different provinces across the island nation, the state weather bureau said.
The typhoon battered the Bicol region and was felt in southern Luzon provinces and the Eastern Visayas.
When it made landfall Sunday over the town of Bato, in the eastern province of Catanduanes, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 185kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 225 kph, the weather bureau said.
More than 12,000 people, along with several cargo and passenger vessels, were stranded in seaports, the Philippine Coast Guard said.
Major airlines announced the cancellation of domestic and international flights on Monday.
An average of 20 typhoons batter the Philippines every year. In November 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 6,000 people and left more than a thousand missing in the eastern Philippines.