More than half a million people evacuated as Typhoon Bavi heads to China after battering Japan and Taiwan

A man rides a scooter as Typhoon Bavi moves close to the northern coast of Taiwan in Keelung - (Reuters)

Typhoon Bavi is set to make landfall near the Chinese city of Wenzhou in the early hours of Sunday, threatening to compound the crisis caused by ongoing floods in several parts of the country.

The typhoon has already battered Japan's southern Sakishima island chain and brushed past northern Taiwan, where hundreds of flights had to be cancelled and thousands evacuated. Before that, it lashed US islands of Rota and Guam, causing “catastrophic” damage.