Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Super Typhoon Uwan's (international name: Fung-wong) expected late-night landfall on the east coast.

Philippines evacuates 900,000 people and braces for ‘catastrophic impact’ - Super typhoon comes just days after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed 204 people in the Philippines

A second typhoon in a week is churning toward the Philippines, with residents in its path warned to flee the looming destructive winds and life-threatening storm surges.

The typhoon is already lashing parts of eastern Philippines with heavy rains and winds and can cover almost the entire country, said PAGASA weather forecaster Benison Estareja.

Tropical cyclone ‘Uwan’ (Fung-wong), a storm with a radius spanning nearly the entirety of the Philippines, reached super typhoon

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, forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people.