By this evening, 14 people died, 81 others were injured and four fishermen went missing before and after storm Haiyan hit Quang Ninh Province and Hai Phong City this morning, the National Committee for Search and Rescue reported.

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These victims had suffered accidents when they tried to consolidate their houses amidst powerful winds or when they were cutting tree branches before the storm made its landfall, the committee said. Of the death toll, four were in Quang Nam province, each two in Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Ngai, each one in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh, and the remaining three in other localities. Meanwhile, Quang Ninh authorities reported that four people have gone missing during the storm.

This morning a ship with four people on board sank after being slashed by strong waves. Rescuers could save only one of them. The same day, one more people went missing when another ship sank in Quang Yen Quay. Efforts to search for the missing people are underway. The committee and the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control this afternoon sent messages to the local steering committees in the coastal region from Quang Binh to Ca Mau provinces, and to Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Transport and Agriculture and Rural Development, asking them to take measures to cope with the coming tropical depression. The Defense Ministry has also asked the Border Guard High Command, the Marine Police High Command and the Navy to prepare to confront with the depression. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, a tropical depression that formed southeast of the Philippines is moving fast to the East Sea and may be there in a few days. At 7 pm today, the depression was centered at 4.9 degrees latitude north and 130.6 degrees longitude east, about 540 km east-southeast of the Philippines’s Mindanao Island, with winds near the eye reaching  up to 61 kph, and squalls of 62-88 kph. The depression is moving west-northwest at a speed of 30 kph and may upgrade into a storm.