The Philippines is being battered by the strongest storm to hit this year - Typhoon Nesat, with an enormous diameter of 650km (400 miles) - causing flooding, landslides and power cuts.

Children have been among those killed. Here, rescuers remove a body from a house in Valenzuela city, in the metropolitan region of Manila, where four people died when a wall collapsed.

In Navotas city north of Manila, a cargo ship was washed ashore by the storm.

Manila's historic bayside area was submerged after storm surges topped the sea wall. Parts of a hospital and luxury hotel had to be evacuated, while areas housing the US embassy, central bank and finance department were flooded.

Impoverished residents of low-lying parts are particularly at risk - such as these shanty dwellers in Navotas city, north of Manila, being evacuated as sea waters encroach.

All manner of vehicles - motorbikes, boats and here, a delivery truck - are being pressed into service to evacuate residents from homes threatened by the storm.