State of emergency as super typhoon batters Micronesia

Meteorologists monitor and plot the direction of Super Typhoon Maysak at the PAGASA headquarters in suburban Manila, on April 1, 2015

Hagatna (Guam) (AFP) - Residents of the Micronesian State of Chuuk were struggling to clear the roads of huge pieces of debris and return to damaged homes Wednesday as Super Typhoon Maysak cut a destructive path across the central Pacific leaving at least five dead.

Crops were ruined and water supplies contaminated, with fears people faced starvation if they did not receive aid soon, after the violent storm took three days to cross the vast Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).