Tropical storm Mirinae, which hit thePhilippines as a deadly typhoon at the weekend, killed atleast 40 people and left 11 missing in Vietnam, a nationaldisaster official said today.Mirinae was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropicaldepression before it hit communist Vietnam's central coastalareas on Monday."Most of the victims were because of serious floods thathit the provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh...
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Flash floods and heavy rains from a tropical storm killed 98 after ploughing into central Vietnam this week and at least 20 people are missing, the government said on Thursday.The storm destroyed more than 1,000 houses and inundated about 29,000 hectares of crops, the government's Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control said.The Ministry of Defence had sent more than 4,000 soldiers to help rescue...
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tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered residents to begin evacuating high-risk areas of five coastal provinces and ordered Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea to seek shelter immediately.The two countries...
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Residents peer from their homes at their still-flooded village of Arenda in Manila. Photo Courtesy: APA tropical storm roared towards Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.Typhoon Mirinae weakened on Sunday as it headed over the South China Sea. It was expected to strike Vietnam’s central...
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tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ordered residents to begin evacuating high-risk areas of five coastal provinces and ordered Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea to seek shelter immediately.The two countries...
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Tropical Storm Mirinae slammed Vietnam's central coast on Monday, unleashing heavy rains and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate.The storm packed winds of 63 mph (102 kph) as it made landfall in Phu Yen province this afternoon.Mirinae hit the Philippines with typhoon strength over the weekend. It killed 20 people before losing strength as it moved across the South China Sea toward...
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Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said on Tuesday.The death toll in the hardest-hit province of Phu Yen was 15 after the storm drenched the region with heavy rain Monday, said disaster official Dang Thi Lanh."Many villages remain cut off by rising waters and we expect...
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Vietnam: Tropical storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 11 people, leaving two missing and forcing families onto rooftops, disaster officials said on Tuesday.
Floods in Phu Yen province killed 10 people after the storm hit, drenching the region with heavy rains Monday, said disaster official Duong Van Huong.
Several villages...
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young man struggling as Typhoon lashes the tourist town of Hoi An in central Vietnam. Photo Courtesy: APThe death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 57 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the affected central regions.In the hardest-hit province of Phu Yen, 24 more deaths were reported as information trickled in from isolated areas, disaster official...
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(Vietnam): The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 57 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the affected central regions.In the hardest-hit province of Phu Yen, 24 more deaths were reported as information trickled in from isolated areas, disaster official Dang Thi Lanh said Wednesday. An additional 18 people were reported missing.The storm and...
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