Tropical storm Aere has lashed the north-eastern Philippines, killing at least nine people and forcing more than 100,000 villagers to flee from farming towns threatened by landslides.

A tropical storm set off landslides and swamped farmland in the north-eastern Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and nine others missing, officials said today.

A wooden-hulled ferry with nearly 100 passengers capsized after being battered by big waves in the north-eastern Philippines, drowning at least 22 people and leaving more than 30 missing.

Rescuers found only bodies today while searching the wreckage of last week’s deadly storms in north-eastern Philippines, but still hoped to find more trapped survivors – one day after pulling four of them alive from a mud-buried building.