September 30, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
Thousands of people in Vietnam sought shelter as a powerful tropical storm barrelled towards its northern coast on Friday, after killing 43 people in the Philippines and slamming into southeast China. Beijing, which had issued its first red typhoon alert of the year, downgraded Typhoon Nesat to a “strong tropical storm” as it slowed at sea, after forcing 300,000 people to evacuate on the tropical island of Hainan. Gale force winds and torrential rain continued to lash China’s southeast coast on Friday and high winds buffeted Hanoi, where forecasters said Nesat would hit Vietnam’s northeast coast in the afternoon. “According to our predictions, after reaching land the typhoon will be weaker…
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