Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The storm hit on Sunday as a super typhoon, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h and gusts of 230km/h
The eye of the storm hit Aurora province in Luzon, the country’s most populous island but weakened to a typhoon and was over La Union in western Luzon.
The country’s meteorological service warned of destructive winds and high-risk of life-threatening storm surged from the very intense typhoon.
Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, comes days after earlier storm Kalmaegi left nearly 200 people dead.
News edited by Favour Owonibi