Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in the central Philippines, where a fierce storm is lashing coastal areas with heavy wind and rain.<br />Typhoon Melor has killed at least one person, caused power cuts and disrupted transportation after churning across several islands in the archipelago since Monday.<br />On Tuesday morning, the storm unexpectedly regained force, with its maximum sustained winds rising to 230 kph, according to the U.S. military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center.<br />The national disaster management agency said roughly 733,000 people had been pre-emptively evacuated as the storm approached. Thousands more were reported to have been displaced after it struck.
