Within 36 hours Milenyo - international codename Xangsane - grew from a tropical depression to a typhoon with gusts up to 240 km/h. He crossed the northern Philippines on Thursday, left six provinces - 43 million people - without electricity and killed at least eleven people. About 5500 people fled their homes, Crops and fruit trees worth $1.19 million had been destroyed.
Xangsane, the Laotian word for elephant, is the 13th typhoon this season and the strongest to Philippine in last 11 years. Satellite picture captured by Daily Aqua, 2006-09-27 05:00 UTC.
Now Milenyo is heading west toward Vietnam at 22 km/h with gusts of up to 140 km/h.
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