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HANOI: Storm Vamco slammed into Vietnam on Sunday (November 15), damaging buildings and injuring at least five people, while the death toll in the Philippines rose to 67.
The storm made landfall Sunday morning with winds of up to 90 kilometers per hour (56 mph) that uprooted trees and blew off the roofs of homes and schools.
Vamco is the latest in a series of storms to hit Vietnam over the past six weeks, causing floods and landslides that have killed at least 159 people and left another 70 missing.
Initial reports from the Disaster Management Authority on Sunday said five people were injured while trying to secure their homes.
Vamco has weakened since hitting the Philippines like a typhoon with winds of up to 155 kilometers per hour, but state media said it had still caused significant damage.
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The images showed waterfront restaurants at the Hoi An tourist hotspot, a UNESCO world heritage site, ripped apart by the storm and huge trees uprooted in the ancient imperial city of Hue.
Authorities evacuated nearly 650,000 people from seven coastal provinces to higher and safer terrain before the storm hit, but on Sunday they warned of the danger of landslides caused by heavy rains.
Vamco was the deadliest storm to hit the Philippines this year, killing at least 67 people on the main island of Luzon in recent days and affecting some 1.7 million across the country.
The storm caused some of the worst flooding in years, flooding villages, destroying crops and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Rescue teams and emergency supplies, including food, were dispatched to the northeastern Philippines on Saturday, where swaths of the region were flooded. The situation worsened with the release of water from a dam.
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Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday that the waters were now receding after visiting Cagayan province, raising hope that the worst is over for the storm-ravaged country.
“The situation is much better. Many areas were still flooded but the water has already receded,” Robredo tweeted.
In Vietnam, weeks of bad weather have damaged or destroyed more than 400,000 homes, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Roads and bridges have been destroyed, power supplies disrupted and crucial food crops destroyed, leaving at least 150,000 people at immediate risk of food shortages.
