Whirlwind claims four lives in Vietnam, injures seven

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Whirlwind claims four lives in Vietnam, injures seven
HANOI (AFP) Mar 22, 2005
Heavy rain and a whirlwind have killed four people and injured seven in the northern Vietnamese province of Cao Bang, a local official said Tuesday.

Three communes were hit by strong winds on Sunday and Monday and around 140 houses and nine schools were damaged, the official Vietnam News Agency reported.

"It happened in a very remote area", said a local official from the province's committee for natural disasters. "The four died after their houses collapsed."