Rescuers struggled to evacuate stranded residents from their homes in Camarines Sur province, the Philippines as Typhoon Vamco battered the country.

Boboy Tuprio said they had just returned to their homes due to previous Typhoon Goni when another strong typhoon, Vamco, arrived on November 11.

He said: "Sadly because we had just returned from our home after the last storm damage, now we have to evacuate again."

Typhoon Vamco, also known as Ulysses, made landfall in the Quezon province on Luzon island on Tuesday evening before leaving the region and moving towards the capital Manila, home to more than two million people, where it made landfall again.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Thursday that it has yet to determine the number of casualties from typhoon Vamco, or Ulysses, as all pertinent data are still being consolidated.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Vamco was a Category Two typhoon and made a ‘signal 3’ warning, with signal 5 being the highest.

They warned of ‘’heavy damage to high-risk structures’’ and ‘’increasing damage to old, dilapidated residential structures, and houses of light materials.”

The agency said there would be ‘’widespread disruption of electrical power and communication services''.

The storm comes just over a week after Typhoon Goni, also known as Typhoon Rolly, killed 74 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Philippines when it made landfall on November 1.