China evacuates more than one million people as region braces for Typhoon Bavi

People struggle with an umbrella in a rain caused by Typhoon Bavi in Taichung, Taiwan (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Chinese authorities evacuated more than one million people on Saturday and issued high alerts as eastern China braced for Typhoon Bavi, which has brought strong winds and rain to Japan’s southern islands and Taiwan.

Earlier, at least 17 people were killed in the southern Philippines, mostly because of landslides that were set off by seasonal monsoon rains that Bavi intensified before the typhoon blew away toward Taiwan, Philippine officials said.