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Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 10:28 GMT 11:28 UK
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In pictures: Typhoon Damrey
A Vietnamese farmer fights his way through a field of rain and high winds in the onslaught of Typhoon Damrey in Hua Loc village in Northern Vietnam on Tuesday September 27, 2005.
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Vietnam is suffering its most powerful typhoon in recent years.
Villagers look at their flooded houses from a road in Hai Hoa commune, a northern province of Nam Dinh 27 September 2005.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the country's northern coast before the storm made landfall.
Vietnamese men try to clear the road of trees during Typhoon Damrey in Hua Loc village in Northern Vietnam on Tuesday, Sept. 27,2005.
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Trees have been ripped up, and dykes breached.
A truck carrying a boat gets stuck along a road with downed power lines on the outskirts of Hau Loc village during Typhoon Damrey in northern Vietnam on Tuesday September 27, 2005.
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The entire northern province of Than Hoa has lost electricity.
Reader Glenn Phillips took this photograph of flooding on his street in Hanoi as a result of overflowing drains during Typhoon Damrey on Tuesday September 27, 2005.
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Some residential streets in Hanoi have been flooded.
Residents come out to get a closer look at a Panama-registered ship that ran aground after it was blown off course by Typhoon Damrey, in Sanya on southern China's Hainan island 27 September 2005.
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Damrey hit the Chinese island of Hainan on Monday, causing this ship to run aground.
An overturned vehicle lies in the middle of a street in Sanya, on the southern Chinese island of Hainan 26 September 2005,
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It left at least nine people dead on Hainan, and caused extensive damage.


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SEE ALSO:
Vietnam hit by powerful typhoon
27 Sep 05 |  Asia-Pacific
Animated guide: Typhoon
25 Aug 05 |  Science/Nature


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