Typhoons kill scores in Philippines

Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead in the northern Philippines and rescuers scrambling to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding.

Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in north-eastern Isabela province yesterday, then barrelled across the main Luzon Island’s mountainous north and agricultural plains that were still sodden from fierce rain and wind unleashed by a howler just days earlier.