Typhoon Doksuri causes death and devastation in northern Philippines

A man negotiates neck-deep floodwaters in his village caused by Typhoon Doksuri (Bernie Sipin Dela Cruz/AP)

Typhoon Doksuri has lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain, leaving at least six people dead and displacing thousands of others as it blew roofs off houses, flooded low-lying villages and triggered dozens of landslides.

One landslide buried a house in Buguias town in Benguet province, killing a mother, her child and two other children and injuring two other people. In the nearby resort city of Baguio, a 17-year-old died when soil loosened by heavy rains buried his house.