Nearly two million people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of the storm.

Japanese islands like Ishigaki have borne the brunt of Typhoon Bavi as it powers through the Pacific A powerful typhoon has made landfall in China, the second to hit the country in a week, with nearly two million people evacuated from areas in the path of the storm. Typhoon Bavi, which spans 1,000km (620 miles) at its widest point - roughly the width of France - first came ashore in the coastal city of Taizhou on Saturday evening before making a second landfall in Wenzhou around midnight (17:00 GMT). After pummelling a chain of remote Japanese islands, it brought heavy rainfall to Taiwan as it brushed past its northern tip. Earlier landslides triggered by the storm killed at least 17 people in the Philippines. Though it has weakened to a severe tropical storm, it still presents a risk because of the huge volume of moisture within its rain bands. The storm is expected to gradually diminish in its intensity as it moves north-west. Bavi is forecast to bring "exceptionally heavy rains" to eastern Zhejiang province and northeastern Fujian province on Sunday, the authorities said, adding that evacuations were "undertaken entirely to guard against the [worst-case] scenario".