Typhoon death toll stands at 9

Rain-soaked residents in the rural Philippines huddled on rooftops on Wednesday after Typhoon Melor caused heavy flooding and killed at least nine people, authorities said.

A barrage of rain in the capital, Manila, on Tuesday night submerged some roads and caused traffic chaos, although flooding in the megacity of 12 million had subsided by Wednesday morning.

The death toll climbed after authorities on Mindoro, a large farming island of 1.2 million roughly 120 kilometers south of the capital, reported five people had died there.