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

The storm, which comes just days after another typhoon ravaged the country, will slam into Aurora province between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm (1200 and 1500 GMT), 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 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 Fung-wong.

Rescuer Juniel Tagarino in Catbalogan City

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