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/ 30 September 2006
Vietnam is evacuating hundreds of thousands of people along its central coast and has halted flights to the region ahead of Typhoon Xangsane’s landfall, which is expected late on Saturday or early on Sunday, officials said. The typhoon, which killed at least 31 people and left a trail of destruction in the Philippines, was forecast to pound the 1 000km coastline of central Vietnam.