At least eight people were killed as Typhoon Morakot swamped the northern Philippines with flooding, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said Friday.

The casualties include several international tourists who had returned from a trip to Mt. Pinatubo, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported.

The destructive path of Morakot, also called Typhoon Koko, included Taiwan and South China. The storm was expected to bring its strong winds and the threat of soaking the island when it makes its expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday, CNN reported.

The typhoon, with wind gusts clocked at 120 mph, could dump between 40 inches and 50 inches of rain, CNN meteorologists said.

In the Philippines, flash flooding was blamed for two deaths in Botolan in Zambales province after a dike burst and flooded 10 villages, the NDCC said.

Nigel Lontoc, assistant regional director of the Office of Civil Defense in central Luzon, said flooding affected more than 13,000 people in Botolan, where at least 1,800 people were in evacuation centers, the Daily Inquirer reported.

Officials said all school in Benguet province was canceled and several roads were closed because of mudslides and flooding.

Morakot's outer edge hit Okinawa early Thursday, Stars and Stripes reported. Wind gusts as high as 65 mph and crosswinds of 50 mph at Naha International Airport forced the cancellation of hundreds of civilian flights.

Officials at U.S. military bases on the Japanese island said some aircraft were evacuated before the typhoon hit and others were locked down in hangers.