Vietnam: 99 fishermen missing in typhoon
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-05-18 10:25 Vietnam has been seeking 99
fishermen missing in typhoon Chanchu, the strongest on record in the South China
Sea this month which killed 37 people in the Philippines, state-run radio said
on Thursday.
The National Search and Rescue Centre's alert carried by the Voice of Vietnam
station said the fishermen aboard 11 ships last made radio contact on Wednesday
morning as they were some 300 km (160 nautical miles) south of Hainan island on
the typhoon path.
Vietnam has alerted all ships in the nearby areas to search for the
fishermen, the state-run radio said.
China evacuated more than 600,000 people before Chanchu, packing winds up to
170 kph (106 mph), made landfall in the southern coast on Thursday. The typhoon
was advancing northeast, the Hong Kong Observatory said.
In the Philippines, Chanchu killed at least 37 people last weekend and
"affected" 53,300 people in wide areas of Luzon and the Visayas, authorities
said.
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