FLOODWATERS reaching more than 4 meters high swamped thousands of houses in the storm-battered Northern Luzon on Tuesday after rivers overflowed following heavy rain and a dam release.

Typhoon Pepito drenched swaths of the country over the weekend, swelling the Cagayan River and tributaries and forcing the release of water from Magat Dam.

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