Filipinos evacuate to shelters in Sorsogon City in the typhoon-prone Bicol region as Typhoon Man-yi nears the storm-weary archipelago nation, with forecasters expecting it to intensify before making landfall. With wind gusts of up to 240 kilometres per hour (about 149 miles per hour), Man-yi was on track to slam into the sparsely populated island province of Catanduanes as a super typhoon or "near peak intensity", the weather service warned. More than 650,000 people have fled their homes ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi, which is expected to make landfall later Saturday or early Sunday, becoming the sixth major storm to pummel the archipelago nation in the past month. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES