MANILA — Filipinos cleared fallen trees and repaired damaged houses on Monday after the sixth major storm to batter the Philippines in a month smashed flimsy buildings, knocked out power and claimed at least eight lives.

A super typhoon ripped through 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.

MANILA: Floodwaters hit hundreds of houses in the northern Philippines on Monday (Nov 18) after water released from a dam following Typhoon Man-yi caused a major river to break its banks. Packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 185kmh,