Aftermath of Typhoon Lekima on Vietnam

Lekima - Vietnam's fifth major storm of the year - made landfall last Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 117Km/h, killing seven people in central Vietnam and leaving over 90 injured.

At least 58 people have died since the typhoon slammed into the country and brought the worst floods in decades to mountainous northern and central provinces areas in 45 years. Emergency workers were taking water, food and medicine supplies by helicopter and boat to stranded villagers cut off after rivers burst their banks and landslides cut off roads in the aftermath of Typhoon Lekima.

The typhoon, named after a local tropical fruit, and the ensuing floods have damaged or destroyed nearly 128,000 houses and 162,000 hectares (400,000 acres) of rice paddy and other crops in Vietnam.

In northwestern Son La, bordering Laos, a landslide exposed six Vietnam war-era bombs in the town of Moc Chau. The army unit had so far defused three of the explosives.

Lekima had earlier hit the Philippines, it was then classified as a tropical storm, and left 9 people dead, also unleashing landslides and floods.