A motorcycle rider and his two pillion passengers crossed a flooded road after Typhoon Molave brought heavy rain to the Philippines.

Resident Rey Nan recorded the brave riders on October 25 after the road was submerged from rainwater pouring down a nearby mountain in Kananga Leyte province.

He said: "That place is just near our house and many cars do not want to cross but the guy on the motorcycle just went straight through without a care.''

The Typhoon made landfall in the Philippines earlier this week before smashing into central Vietnam and moving into Laos and Thailand.

It brought flash floods and winds of up to 145 kilometres per hour (85 miles per hour) but has now weakened into a tropical depression.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society said that more than 700 communities were without power, while infrastructure, crops and safe drinking water supplies had been damaged or destroyed.

President Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu said: ''We are heartbroken by more tragic loss of life as this typhoon has brought further misery and hardships to hundreds of thousands of people in central Vietnam.''

The annual rainy season lasts from June to November in Southeast Asia and brings heavy downpours and flooding. Cambodia has also been severely hit this year along with Indonesia and Malaysia.