Officials in the Philippines say
at least a hundred people have died in floods
and landslides in the north triggered by a week of heavy rain.
This follows two storms in the past two weeks
which have already left about three hundred people dead.
Reports said that even some evacuation centers
had been flooded. Danny Vincent reports from the capital Manila.
Officials say that
30 cities were hit by the landslide through the night
where residents taken to the rooftops of their houses for refuge.
The northern Philippines have been pounded
by heavy rain following the second typhoon
in just over a week to hit the nation.
Typhoon Parma has lingered in the north of the country
turning into a tropical depression.
It follows Typhoon Ketsana
which killed more than 300 people
when it's hit on September 26.