A horrified family watched as their house collapsed while being battered by raging flash floods in the Philippines.

Footage shows the lopsided concrete home as a muddy river overflowing from a nearby river pounded away at its foundation in Maguindanao province on August 9.

The house eventually gave was and collapsed as panicked residents watched from a distance.

The owner's neighbour Nasrudin Mohamad said: ‘It was terrifying. When the water flowed to the village, it made the soil soft and destroyed homes.'

Nasrudin added that another house was destroyed nearby which was not recorded on video.

Several villages in the region were submerged after two main rivers Polangui and Rio Grande de Mindanao burst and overflowed after monsoon rains.

The Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, are in the middle of their tropical monsoon rainy season, which lasts until October or November.

Experts believe that climate change caused a shift in Asia's monsoon patterns, which resulted in extreme rainfall events.

In South Korea, the streets of Seoul turned to rivers after the highest hourly rainfall rain was recorded that killing at least nine people and damaging thousands of homes in its worst flooding in 80 years.