ibitimes.com - by Jijo Jacob- 30 September 2013
Vietnam evacuates tens of thousands of people as country braces for landfall
More than 75 Chinese fishermen are missing as a powerful category 1 typhoon sank at least two vessels near the Paracel Islands in South China Sea. Meanwhile, Vietnamese authorities have said they are evacuating tens of thousands of people from vulnerable areas.
Typhoon Twenty, also called Wutip, is the strongest to hit Vietnam this year and it follows Typhoon Usagi, which killed more than 30 people in the Philippines and China earlier in September. The typhoon, with maximum sustained speed of 90 miles per hour, is expected to make landfall on Vietnam's central coast on Monday.
More than 8,000 people in the coastal areas of the Quang Tri province have been evacuated and as many as 35,000 people living in areas vulnerable to landslides and flooding are being evacuated.
