(7:43pm AEDT)
Typhoon Linda's confirmed death-toll
has reached 503 in southern Vietnam with over 3,380 people still listed
as missing.
A report issued by the Hanoi office of the International Federation of
the Red Cross estimated damage to be over 576-million dollars.
The storm which battered southern Vietnam
on earlier this month, was the worst to hit southern Vietnam since 1904.
Nearly all those who died and those still missing, were fisherman caught
by the storm at sea.
Rescue officials say there is little
hope of finding any more survivors.
More than 70-thousand homes and 23-hundred
schools were destroyed.
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1996 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Wed Nov 26 20:00:00 1997 ( AEDT )
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