MANILA:  , The death toll from Super Typhoon Man-yi in the Philippines has risen to 12, the national disaster agency said on Thursday ( Nov 21 ) as widespread flooding subsided.
Over the weekend, Man-yi smashed thin buildings and buried villages in the mainland nation, bringing with it optimum sustained wind speeds of 185kmh.
The Philippines experienced its fifth significant wind in a month.
Together they have killed at least 175 people and displaced hundreds, as well as wiping out crops and livestock
Seven people were killed after a disaster buried their home in Nueva Vizcaya state, making up the majority of the Man-yi deaths in mountainous areas north of Manila.
A stone even crushed a home, burying three people dead, in the seaside town of Dipaculao, where Man-yi had made a minute landfall, Ariel Nepomuceno, a top official with the government’s legal defence office, told AFP.
Four persons remain missing, he added.
” We are now in the healing time, people have started to fix their residences”, Nepomuceno said.
” Building materials have been arriving in hard-hit regions”.