Typhoon Bavi: China evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall - BBC News

Schools, work and outdoor activities have been suspended in Zhejiang province and many transport services cancelled.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Typhoon Bavi has passed through the coastal village of Diaocaocun in Zhejiang province

A powerful typhoon has made landfall in China, the second to hit the country in a week, with nearly two million people evacuated from areas in the path of the storm.

Typhoon Bavi, which spans 1,000km (620 miles) at its widest point - roughly the width of France - first came ashore in the coastal city of Taizhou on Saturday, external evening before making a second landfall in Wenzhou around midnight (17:00 GMT).

After pummelling a chain of remote Japanese islands, it brought heavy rainfall to Taiwan as it brushed past its northern tip.

Earlier landslides triggered by the storm killed at least 17 people in the Philippines.