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Philippines braces for another typhoon

Philippine authorities warned that at least a million people living in flooded villages and farmland were set to be pounded by more devastating rain from a second typhoon.

Residents salvage housing materials from a community on Manila Bay in Navotas, part of Metro Manila, on September 29, in an area that was destroyed by storm surges unleashed by Typhoon Nesat. Slum dwellers in the Philippine capital rummaged through their flattened homes as villagers on remote farms battled floods, two days after a monster typhoon killed at least 43 people.

Typhoon Nesat pummelled the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving 30 others missing as it dumped the biggest single-day volume of rain on the disaster-weary country this year.

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