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More than 600,000 people have been evacuated as super typhoon Haiyan veers towards Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, after the storm smashed through the Philippines killing thousands and causing widespread devastation.

Local Red Cross staff place sandbags on the roof of a house as they prepare for the arrival of super typhoon Haiyan, in the central provincial coastal city of Danang on November 9, 2013

Residents of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi were braced for heavy rains and flooding, while tens of thousands of people in coastal areas were ordered to take shelter ahead of Haiyan's expected landfall on Monday morning.

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