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Super Typhoon Fung-wong makes landfall in Philippines: weather service

Published: 09 Nov 2025 - 05:13 pm | Last Updated: 09 Nov 2025 - 05:15 pm
This handout photo taken and released by RG Jomark Omayan on November 9, 2025 shows a damaged home as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong moved towards the coast in Viga, Catanduanes province. Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on November 9 before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected late-night landfall on the east coast. (Photo by Handout / Courtesy of RG Jomark Omayan / AFP)

This handout photo taken and released by RG Jomark Omayan on November 9, 2025 shows a damaged home as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong moved towards the coast in Viga, Catanduanes province. Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on November 9 before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected late-night landfall on the east coast. (Photo by Handout / Courtesy of RG Jomark Omayan / AFP)

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Manila: 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 their homes.

The storm, with a radius spanning nearly the whole of the Philippines, made landfall in Aurora province on the main island of Luzon at 9:10 pm (1310 GMT), the state forecaster reported, only days after another typhoon ravaged the country.