This photo taken by Alexander Donato and submitted to ABS-CBN News shows a house that used to stand near the Chico River in Bontoc, Mountain Province.
Bontoc was one of the areas that were hit the hardest by Typhoon Lawin (international name: Haima). The raging waters of the river also reportedly hit the house.
Lawin is the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in three years (the last one was Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) in 2013.
The most recent reports log 12 people dead in Lawin wake. Vast tracts of rice and corn fields were also damaged by Lawin before it moved on to Hong Kong.
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