Devastating floods struck the northern Philippines on Monday, when Tropical Storm Toraji became the fourth tropical storm to hit the island nation in three weeks.

This is the dramatic moment a villager was rescued from a flood spawned by Typhoon Toraji in the Philippines. The man had reportedly been walking on the banks of the swollen Cagayan River when the ground beneath him gave way in Amulung town,

The Philippines has scrambled to deal with multiple calamities wreaked by four back-to-back typhoons and storms in less than a month.