More than 300,000 people have been told to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki moved across a wide area between Hanoi and Da Nang.

The storm damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares of rice plantings and felled 18,000 trees, the government said in a statement.

Tropical Storm Kajiki killed three people in Vietnam after it made landfall as a powerful typhoon on Monday, unleashing dangerous winds and prompting authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of residents as it surged through the country’s central provinces.