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People run in strong winds on Friday, Sept. 29, 2011 in Haikou, Hainan Province of China. Typhoon Nesat, the 17th typhoon to hit China this year, landed in Wenchang of Hainan province on Thursday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of 320,000 residents in Hainan province. (

Typhoon Nesat moves to Vietnam after hitting China

AP reports:

HONG KONG — A powerful typhoon that forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes on an island in southern China appeared to have caused little damage Friday and was sweeping away from the country toward Vietnam.

Typhoon Nesat was expected to make landfall in Vietnam late Friday or early Saturday, after flooding streets on China's Hainan island on Thursday. Hainan authorities had plenty of time to prepare for the storm as it churned across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where it killed at least 43 people and left 30 missing earlier in the week. Full story.

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