Overview
- Cebu emerges as the worst‑hit province, with a coastal town’s 35 newly recovered bodies lifting its local toll to 76, according to officials cited by AFP.
- Authorities evacuated roughly 400,000 people before landfall, with hundreds of thousands displaced across 24 provinces plus widespread power outages and flight cancellations.
- Six air force personnel were killed when a helicopter crashed in Agusan del Sur during a humanitarian mission, the military said.
- Kalmaegi delivered sustained winds near 120–130 km/h, gusts up to about 180 km/h, and roughly 183 liters of rain per square meter in 24 hours around Cebu.
- The storm is weakening as it tracks toward Vietnam later this week, and forecasters warn another tropical system could approach the Philippines within days.