At least 26 fishermen are missing in waters of Vietnam, where one of the strongest typhoons in two decades has torn into the nation’s central coastline, uprooting trees and forcing hundreds of thousands into shelter.
Key points:
- They typhoon is packing winds of up to 135 kilometres per hour
- At least 40,000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters
- The Vietnamese military is on standby, ready to respond to the unfolding disaster
Typhoon Molave made landfall in south-central Vietnam on Wednesday local time, leaving at least two people dead and the fishermen missing as their boats sank in…
