Super Typhoon Fung-wong: at least 2 die in Philippines as over a million evacuate
Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, could expose 30 million people to danger, the government says
Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed into the Philippines’ eastern seaboard on Sunday, the national weather service said, after killing at least two people and forcing more than a million to evacuate vulnerable areas at risk of flash floods, landslides and tidal surges.
The typhoon, locally known as Uwan, is the biggest to threaten the Philippines this year and could cover two-thirds of the Southeast Asian archipelago with its 1,600km (994 mile) wide rain and wind band.
Authorities warned of a “high risk of life-threatening and damaging storm surge” of more than three metres (10 feet) along the coasts of more than 20 provinces and regions, including metropolitan Manila.
The civil defence office reported on Sunday that a villager drowned in flash floods on the island of Catanduanes, and firefighters recovered the body of a 64-year-old woman trapped under a collapsed home in the city of Catbalogan on the island of Samar.