Central coastal provinces are evacuating approximately 180,000 people from areas venerable to landslides and flash floods ahead of the arrival of powerful Typhoon Xangsane around midnight on Saturday. In an urgent telegram on Friday night, PM Nguyen Tan Dung asked chairmen of the provincial People’s Committees from Ha Tinh to Phu Yen to instruct local administrations and rescue forces to complete mass evacuations before 17.00pm on Saturday. He also asked chairmen of the provincial People’s Committees from Quang Ninh to Kien Giang to mobilise rescue forces and try to have contact with the remaining number of fishing vessels still at sea and guide them to safe storm shelters. According to the National Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting Centre, by 13.00 pm on Saturday, Typhoon Xangsane, which has strengthened to Category 13 on the national scale, was about 330km east of the coastline between Da Nang and Quang Ngai. The powerful typhoon is moving west with winds gusting up to 149kph near its centre and is expected to strike the central coast on Saturday evening and move further inland the next day. Weather forecasters warned central provinces from Nghe An to Phu Yen of torrential rains and high tidal surges, particularly landslides and flash… Read full this story
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