Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate

Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.

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The storm was upgraded to a super typhoon, with sustained winds around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph).

The eye of the storm hit the Aurora province in Luzon - the Philippine's most populous island - at 21:10 local time (13:10 GMT). The country's meteorological service has warned there is a "high-risk of life-threatening and damaging storm surge with peak heights exceeding 3m [10ft]" as the storm moves north-westerly across Luzon.

Fung-wong - known locally as Uwan - comes days after an earlier storm, Kalmaegi, left a trail of destruction and nearly 200 people dead.

The storm passed near the eastern Bicol region, the first part of the Philippines to be affected, on Sunday morning, before making its way past the Polillo Islands on Sunday afternoon.