Super typhoon makes landfall in Philippines

Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated.

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

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.

Several schools have either cancelled classes on Monday or moved them online, while nearly 300 flights have been cancelled.

Fung-wong was expected to weaken after making landfall, but is likely to remain a typhoon as it travels over Luzon.

Over 200mm of rain is forecast for parts of Luzon, even 100-200mm in the Metro Manilla area. This is expected to cause severe flooding and landslides.

Eastern parts of the Philippines had already begun experiencing heavy rains and winds, a weather official said on Saturday evening.

Extreme conditions were reported in Catanduanes, an island in the east of the Bicol region, on Sunday morning.

Residents there, as well as in other low-lying and coastal areas, had been urged to move to higher ground by Sunday morning.

In the Aurora region, in eastern Luzon, BBC News spoke to Hagunoy, 21, who works at one of the dozen hotels which line the coast in Sabang.

He said police had repeatedly visited in recent days to ensure all guests were evacuated ahead of the storm. The hotels were all deserted on Sunday morning.

While the tide had risen sharply, Hagunoy said he would stay as long as he could to guard the property, before riding his motorbike home to safety.

Staff had secured the gates and tied windows shut with rope to try to stop the glass from shattering in the wind.

In central Aurora, more than 200 people arrived at a shelter in a sports centre. Many parents have brought young children, too young to remember Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people when it struck the Philippines in 2013.

Fung-wong has also forced the suspension of rescue operations following the passage of Kalmaegi, one of the strongest typhoons this year.

Heavy rainfall sent torrents of mud down hillsides and into residential areas. Some poorer neighbourhoods were obliterated by the fast-moving flash floods.

At least 204 people are now known to have died in the Philippines as a result of the earlier storm, while more than 100 are still missing.

Five people also died in Vietnam, where strong winds uprooted trees, tore off roofs, and smashed large windows.