Typhoon Damrey Damages Dikes
From Times Wire Reports
Typhoon Damrey smashed into Vietnam after killing 16 people in China, tearing into vital networks of sea dikes on a long stretch of coastline, where more than 330,000 people had been evacuated.
In Thanh Hoa province, where the typhoon landed, one person was killed while trying to tie down the roof of a house. The government deployed small armies to shore up the sea dikes and to quicken rice harvesting, but the barriers were soon breached in some areas, flooding and isolating villages.
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