HANOI: Tropical Storm Noul pounded Vietnam on Friday, killing one person and injuring dozens more as it unleashed heavy rains and high winds on the country's central coastal region, authorities said. Images on state-run Vietnam Television showed damaged houses and trees, and power poles pulled from the ground as the country's biggest storm of the year made landfall in Hue, Vietnam's old imperial capital.

On Thursday, authorities said more than one million people across three central provinces as well as the city of Danang would be evacuated. At least one person was killed and dozens others injured, state media reported, as 90 kilometre-per-hour (56 mph) winds struck. "It was scary as the wind was so strong when the storm arrived," said Nguyen Xuan Vu, who lives in Hue.