A super typhoon ripped through the Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause havoc across an exhausted nation.

Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed scores of houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms.

Super Typhoon Man-Yi leaves towns in the Philippines inundated by floodwater:: November 18, 2024:: Nueva Ecija province, Philippines"The floodwater from the typhoon and the surrounding provinces gushed here because the elevation of the land here is lower.