Typhoon takes toll on Vietnam and Philippines

Many of an estimated 300,000 people who were evacuated in Vietnam's central coastal provinces to safer locations before the typhoon struck returned to find their houses had been destroyed.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are killed and property and crops damaged each year by tropical storms in the two countries, which are separated by the South China Sea.

Another tropical storm, with maximum winds of 85 kph (52 mph) and gusts of up to 100 kph, was moving towards the northern tip of the Philippines, weather forecasters said.

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