A sign written in mud reflects the desperation of residents in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines pummeled by tropical storm Ketsana - AP
Bamboo furniture left on an overhead telephone after being carried by flood waters in Marikina - AFP
Flood-stricken Filipinos desperate for clean water and other supplies - AFP
Dry clothes - a happy form of relief for flood-stricken Filipionos in suburban Cainta, east of Manila, Philippines - AP
Residents return to the massive clean-up of mud dumped in homes, offices and the streets of Marikina during the storm and floods - AFP
Mud-filled streets outside Manila in the aftermath of tropical storm Ketsana show the severity of the flooding - AFP
The body of an infant who couldn't escape the rushing flood waters in Marikina - AFP
Maria Luz Magallanes grieves at the coffin of her son, 18 year old Muelmar, who saved over 30 people from rampaging floods but died after a last trip to rescue a baby girl - AFP
The 'lucky ones' make a bed in a school turned into an evacuation centre in Cantas town - AFP
Filipino rescue worker with an infant plucked to safety - AFP
Women and children rescued from the floods by Filipino rescuers
Resident in Marinika bundles his pet dogs to safety - AFP
Filipino rescue workers had to search homes and hospitals for people stranded by the floods - AFP
Philippine security forces deploy emergency rescue equipment to ferry people to safety as floodwaters raged
A Filipino boy clings to safety as he's carried by his brother in the driving storm - AFP
Streets and highways turned into rivers as people waded in the chest deep floodwaters in suburban Cainta, east of Manila, due to the tropical strom - AP
Residents swim through neck-deep floodwaters as others stay on top of houses in Pasig City east of Manila, Philippines - AP/Air Force photo
A boy carries his brother in waist deep flood waters when the Philippines was lashed by a tropical storm locally known as Ondoy where a month of rain fell in six hours - AP
Locals in Manila suburbs help rescue children who would otherwise drown in the chest-high floodwaters - AFP
Tyre inner rings and other make-shift rescue gear called into use by Manila residents trying to escape the fierce flooding - AFP
Wet but safe from tropical storm Ketsana when it hit the Philippines - AFP
A sea of humanity left by tropical storm Ketsana in the Philippines - AFP
Sea water sweeps over the concrete pier at a fishing port in suburban Malabon City during tropical storm Ketsana - AP
Two men pull their outrigger into a flooded street as the sea breaches the concrete pier at fishing port, Malabon city, north of Manila - AP
US navy personnel rescue a woman about to give birth at a flooded area in Pasig - AFP
A church becomes an evacuation centre for displaced Filipinos
Victims of Ketsana in the Philippines line up for medicine
Fearful of the floods a young Vietnamese battles Ketsana which slammed into Cambodia and Vietnam after ravaging the Philippines
Vietnamese man wades through the waters dumped by Ketsana
Streets in coastal Vietnam turned into seas
