Typhoon Man-yi leaves seven dead in landslide in Philippines

Motorists ride past a part of a roof suspended on electric wires blown by strong winds caused by Typhoon Man-yi iin the municipality of Baler, Aurora province, northeastern Philippines (Noel Celis/AP)

Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed scores of houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms.

Man-yi was one of the strongest of the six major storms to hit the northern Philippines in less than a month and had sustained winds of up to 195 kilometres (125 miles) per hour when it slammed into the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night.