TYPHOON Koppu has weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northern Philippines, leaving at least one person dead and six others missing while displacing 16,000 villagers.

ARMY troops and police were deployed to rescue residents trapped in flooded villages in the hard-hit provinces of Aurora and Nueva Ecija, a nearby rice-growing province where floodwaters swamped farmlands at harvest time, officials said.

Originally published asOne dead as Koppu hits Philippines