Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity on Monday as Typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least five people and displacing more than a million.

Fung-wong, with a footprint that spanned nearly the entire archipelago, slammed into the eastern seaboard as a "super typhoon" on Sunday evening, uprooting trees and swamping towns in its path.

It landed days after Typhoon Kalmaegi swept through the islands of the central Philippines, killing at least 224 people.

Cleanup efforts were underway on Monday from Cagayan province in the far north to hard-hit Catanduanes island more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) to the south.

In Cagayan, provincial rescue chief Rueli Rapsing told AFP a flash flood in neighbouring Apayao province had caused

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