Philippines flooded

SUBMERGED: SUPER TYPHOON INUNDATES VILLAGES AND TOWNS >>> Storm now heading to Taiwan where torrential rain is expected.

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SOAKED. A resident paddles his boat past inundated houses in Tuguegarao city, north of Manila yesterday following heavy rain brought about by super typhoon Fung-wong.

(AFP)

Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity yesterday as typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least two people and displacing more than a million.

Fung-wong, with a footprint that spanned nearly the entire archipelago, slammed into the eastern seaboard as a “super typhoon” on Sunday evening, uprooting trees and swamping towns in its path.

It landed days after typhoon Kalmaegi swept through the islands of the central Philippines, killing at least 224 people.

Cleanup efforts were underway yesterday from Cagayan province in the far north to hard-hit Catanduanes island more than 1000km to the south.

In Cagayan, provincial rescue chief Rueli Rapsing said a flash flood in neighbouring Apayao province had caused the Chico River to burst its banks, sending nearby residents scrambling for higher ground.