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Heavy rain and wind lashed Vietnam's central coast Friday as Typhoon Doksuri made landfall, prompting mass evacuations
At least four people have been killed and 10 more were injured by the effects of Typhoon Doksuri as it made landfall in Vietnam on Friday, officials said.
A disaster official told the Associated Press that a man was killed in Quang Binh province when he tried to reinforce his home and fell to his death. The man's identity has not been released. An elderly man was also killed in the province when he fell to the ground and died of his injuries in his yard, disaster official Nguyen Duc Toan told the AP.
Officials also confirmed to the AP the death of an 83-year-old woman in Nghe An province, and in Thua Thien Hue province, a man was swept away by floodwaters and died.
The provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh were hardest-hit,
with upwards of 100,000 homes sustaining damage in the hours before and after landfall, the AP also reported. Power was cut to entire provinces before the storm arrived, leaving hundreds of thousands in the dark.
"It looks terrible, worse than war time," Tran Thi Hong, principal of the Ky Xuan school in Ha Tinh province, which lost its entire roof, told Reuters. "I could just cry, it took us so long to build this school."
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