Roofs torn off, buildings leveled, trees uprooted. Typhoon Kalmaegi roared into Vietnam late Thursday with winds of more than 130 mph (41 meters per second), just days after the country was hit by deadly torrential rains and flooding and shortly after Kalmaegi ravaged the Philippines.
On Friday, state media reported that at least five people had been killed and three were missing in Vietnam as a direct result of the typhoon's devastation. Extensive power outages and thousands of damaged buildings were also reported.
In the Philippines, where President Ferdinand Marcos has declared a national state of disaster, a sharp increase in the number of deaths is being reported: from 140 on Thursday to 188 on Friday. In addition, 135 people are missing according to the country's civil defense and hundreds of thousands of evacuees are still in temporary shelters.
