Typhoon Man-yi killed at least seven people in landslides, destroyed scores of homes and displaced scores of villagers before blowing through the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis caused by back-to-back storms.

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

US defense secretary Lloyd Austin meets President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila. He met with and offered his prayers and announced that one million dollars of additional humanitarian aid would be provided to the typhoon victims.

Torrential rains and high winds unleashed by Man-yi caused a landslide in the northern town of Ambaguio in the northern state of Nueva Vizcaya early Monday, burying a house and killing seven people, including children, and injuring three others, regional police chief Brigadier General Gen. He said he opened it. said Antonio P. Marallag Jr.

Brigadier General Marallag said army troops, police and villagers were scrambling to search for three others believed to have been buried under an avalanche of mud, rocks and uprooted trees.

Disaster response officials said they were checking whether the deaths of two villagers in a motorcycle accident and electrocution were directly related to Man-yi’s attack, so they could be added to the overall death toll.

A separate search is underway for a couple and their children after their shantytown in the northern state of Nueva Ecija was swept away by raging rivers, they said.

According to the Civil Defense Authority, more than one million people were affected by the typhoon and two previous storms; Of these, nearly 700,000 fled their homes and moved to emergency shelters or relatives’ homes.

It was stated that approximately 8,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, and more than 100 cities and towns were affected by power outages due to fallen electricity poles.

Ms. Gianan said outreach officials were delivering food aid, drinking water and other aid, but more was needed in the coming months.

Many villagers will need construction materials to rebuild their homes, he said.

“When the super typhoon hit, they had not recovered from the previous storms,” Ms. Gianan told the Associated Press.

“It was one disaster after another.”

A rare series of back-to-back storms and typhoons hit Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island, in just three weeks, killing more than 160 people, affecting nine million people and causing massive damage to communities, infrastructure and farmland. The Philippines may have to import more rice, its staple food.

Mr. Marcos, who held an emergency meeting as Man-yi approached, asked his cabinet and provincial officials to prepare for a “worst-case scenario.”

Most transportation services have resumed, according to the Philippine Civil Aviation Authority and coast guard.

The United States, Manila’s treaty ally, along with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, provided cargo aircraft and other storm relief to aid government disaster response agencies.

The first major storm, Trami, last month, killed scores of people after dumping one to two months of rain in just 24 hours in many towns.

The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms every year.

It is subject to frequent earthquakes and has more than a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.