Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power and forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people.
Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. issued warning to many people in affected areas, urging them to evacuate to safety from high-risk villages before it’s too late.
Fung-wong, which could cover two-thirds of the Southeast Asian archipelagic nation of more than 7,600 islands, with its 1,600-kilometer-wide rain and wind span, approaching from the Pacific while the Philippines was still reeling from the devastation caused by Typh
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