Typhoon Bualoi batters Vietnam coast, killing 11

HANOI — Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people, local and national officials said on Monday. The storm — the 10th to hit Vietnam this year — made landfall late on Sunday, generating winds of 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour. Thousands of houses and businesses have been damaged or destroyed, authorities in three provinces told AFP. Images published by AFP showed corrugated metal roofs blown off buildings and household debris strewn across saturated streets in coastal Nghe An province. "The wind blew my roof to the sky and then it fell down, breaking everything. I had to cover my head and rushed to my neighbour's house to be safe," Trinh Thi Le, 71, in central Quang Tri province, was quoted as saying by state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper. At least nine people were killed when a typhoon-related whirlwind swept through northern Ninh Binh province early on Monday, according to the local disaster agency. One person was killed in the province of Hue and another in Thanh Hoa, while about 20 were missing, local anWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times