HANOI The death toll from Typhoon Dawn which slammed into central Vietnam late last week, had risen to at least 187, officials said Friday, with five people still missing and 50 injured. The typhoon, the worst in the region in more than three decades, left two million people homeless after 500,000 houses were flooded and nearly 700 collapsed, an official from the central committee for flood and storm control in Da Nang city told AFP by phone.

(AFP)