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Nearly one-million people evacuated as a second typhoon in a week hits the Philippines

# Almost 920-thousand residents have been evacuated from eleven regions as Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday. Two people have died. The storm, which was upgraded to a super typhoon before hitting land, is expected to cause severe flooding and landslides. This comes days after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit the country, killing at least 224 people and leaving another 135 missing, while five people died in Vietnam. The Filipino government declared a state of calamity after Typhoon Kalmaegi, and in preparation for the coming storm.