Supertyphoon Fung-wong Hits Indonesia and Causes Devastation

With a 1,600-kilometer-wide band of rain and wind, the typhoon approached the Pacific and threatens to cover two-thirds of the archipelago, while the population is still dealing with the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi. The supertyphoon Fung-wong, the largest to threaten the Philippines this year, began hitting the country’s northeast coast on Sunday, forcing over a million people to evacuate high-risk areas – including Bicol, a vulnerable coastal region to cyclones and mudflows from Mayon, one of the country’s most active volcanoes – by recommendation of Civil Defense. With a 1,600-kilometer-wide band of rain and wind, the typhoon approached the Pacific and threatens to cover two-thirds of the archipelago, while the population is still dealing with the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi, which left at least 224 dead last Tuesday.