A powerful typhoon has brought heavy rains and strong winds to eastern Philippines, toppling trees, overturning tin roofs and cutting power lines in areas still bearing the scars of Typhoon Haiyan last November.
Hagupit, Filipino for "smash", moved in from the Pacific Ocean and made landfall over remote fishing communities of Samar island last night, with wind speeds of up to 210km an hour.
Hagupit has weakened to a Category 3 storm, two notches below "super typhoon", but could still cause huge destruction with heavy rain and storm surges of up to 4.5 metres expected.
One million people have already fled to shelters in what a UN agency said was one of the world's biggest peacetime evacuations.
