Trapped residents had to drank rain water after the supply was cut due to tropical storm Megi in the Philippines.

Footage shows a family gathering water in pans and buckets during the severe weather in Leyte province on April 11.

Stricken local Josie Rai said: ‘We no longer have water because the pipes were broken down by the flash flood.

‘It could take weeks before the supply is restored again. I hope everyone is safe during these scary times.’

Tropical storm Megi, locally named Agaton, made landfall in the central provinces of the Philippines on Sunday April 10 morning.

It is the first typhoon to have hit the tropical country during summer this year, leaving one dead and two injured with several houses and crops damaged.