More than a million people have been evacuated and at least one person killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected landfall on the east coast.

The super typhoon, which comes just days after another storm ravaged the country, will slam into Aurora province between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm, state weather forecaster Charmagne Varilla told AFP.

With a radius spanning nearly the whole of the Philippines, Fung-wong is expected to bring wind and heavy rain to broad swathes of the archipelago nation, which last week saw more than 220 people killed by Typhoon Kalmaegi.

On Sunday, one of the already storm-stricken provinces in the central Philippines recorded the first known death from Typhoon Fung-wong.

Rescuer Juniel Tagarino in Catbalogan City told

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