LOOK: Landslides devastate parts of northern Luzon
Torrential rain dumped by Typhoon “Ompong” in Luzon over the weekend triggered massive landslides in the northern part of the country.
Photos taken by the Associated Press show the extent of the destruction in the Cordillera Administrative Region.
The Philippine National Police earlier reported that 64 people were killed while 45 others were missing when landslides hit Baguio City and the provinces of Benguet, Mountain Province, Kalinga and Nueva Vizcaya. /cbb
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Rescuers at the site where victims were believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan said that at the height of the typhoon’s onslaught Saturday afternoon, dozens of people, mostly miners and their families, rushed into an old three-story building in the village of Ucab. The building, a former mining bunkhouse that had been transformed into a chapel, was obliterated when part of a mountain slope collapsed. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Rescuers dig on the site where victims were believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
A backhoe lies on its side as it fell while working on the site of a landslide where victims were believed to have been buried after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
A rescuer looks at the site of a landslide where victims are believed to have been buried after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers work on the site where victims were believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers carry a body at the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
A truck works near the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers move stones at the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers use a search dog to look for victims believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers continue searching for victims believed to be buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers search for victims believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers retrieve a body at the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Residents and relatives of miners in Itogon township, Benguet province in the northern Philippines, carry their belongings as they evacuate to following landslides triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut burying an unknown number of miners and isolating the township Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. AP Photo/Jayjay Landingin
A gold miner moves a stone while searching for victims believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Rescuers assist a mother and her child as they evacuate to safer grounds following landslides that hit Itogon township, Benguet province in the northern Philippines due to Typhoon Mangkhut Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. The landslides buried dozens of miners and isolated the township. Typhoon Mangkhut barreled into southern China on Sunday after lashing the northern Philippines with strong winds and heavy rain that left more than dozens dead from landslides and drownings. (AP Photo/Jayjay Landingin)
Residents and relatives of miners in Itogon township, Benguet province in the northern Philippines wait as a worker cuts a toppled tree with a chainsaw as they evacuate following landslides triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut burying an unknown number of miners and isolating the township Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. AP Photo/Jayjay Landingin
Pio Badangayon cries while seeing the body of her son-in-law Edwin Banawol after it was retrieved by rescuers at the site where victims are believed to have been buried by a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
Residents sit beside bodies that were retrieved earlier from a landslide after Typhoon Mangkhut barreled across Itogon, Benguet province, northern Philippines, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Aaron Favila
