HANOI: Typhoon Nari slammed into central Vietnam early on Tuesday killing five people, ripping roofs of homes and damaging roads, state media reported.

The storm, which claimed 13 lives in the Philippines over the weekend, tore through the communist country’s central region—from the tourist town of Hue to Quang Ngai to the south, Vietnam Television reported.

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