Nine million people have been told to evacuate their homes as Japan is hit by one of the worst typhoons Nanmadol, the country has ever seen.

The super typhoon Nanmadol killed two people and injured almost 90 people.

It hit Japan’s most southerly island, Kyushu, on Sunday morning, and is forecast to pass over the main island of Honshu in the next few days.

Tens of thousands of people have been staying in emergency shelters. Flights, train services, electricity, transport and business have been disrupted in the area.

A level-five alert, the highest on Japan’s disaster warning scale, has been issued for more than 500,000 people in the Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Oita, Kumamoto and Yamaguchi areas.