Milenyo' continues rampage in Vietnam

Typhoon "Milenyo" (now referred to by its international codename of Xangsane) was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday as it moved inland from the central Vietnam coast, where it killed two people, injured at least 80 others and damaged hundreds of homes, officials and state-controlled media reported.

The storm killed two people in Danang, Vietnam Television reported.

Heavy rains were expected to continue for the next several days, and could unleash floods and landslides across the region, said Bui Minh Tang, director of the national weather center.

The storm, which earlier killed at least 76 people and left 69 missing in the Philippines, hit Danang, a city of 770,000 people, at around 9 a.m., and caused widespread blackouts, said an official at the regional Flood and Storm Control Department