VIGAN, PHILIPPINES—Super Typhoon Haima weakened and blew out to sea Thursday after smashing the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain overnight. One other typhoon-related death was reported in northern Ilocos region but details were not immediately available. A motorist passes a building destroyed by super typhoon Haima in Cabagan town, north of Manila on Thursday. In northern Ilocos Sur province, rice fields resembled brown lakes under waist-high flood waters, although cleanup operations had started. Fallen trees in Narvacan township after Typhoon Haima passes through.

Source: thestar October 20, 2016 12:45 UTC