DHAKA: More than 600,000 people were evacuated as super typhoon ‘Haiyan’ veered towards Vietnam, authorities said on Sunday, after the storm smashed through the Philippines killing thousands and causing widespread devastation.

‘We have evacuated more than 174,000 households, which is equivalent to more than 600,000 people,’ an official report by Vietnam’s flood and storm control department said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.

The storm is expected to strike on Monday morning after changing course prompting mass evacuations in northern Nghe An province around 230 kilometres from the capital Hanoi, the update said.

However, many of the estimated 200,000 evacuated in four central provinces on Saturday have been allowed to return to their homes.

BDST: 1733 HRS, NOV 10, 2013
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