CNN - 10/29/12, Jethro Mullen
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- More than a thousand rescue workers have been deployed in Vietnam
- Helicopters are on standby to search for an oil rig adrift from its towboats
- Tropical Storm Son-Tinh had already killed at least 27 people in the Philippines
The skyline of downtown Manila is shrouded in cloud and haze, brought on by Tropical storm Son-Tinh on Thursday.
Hong Kong (CNN) -- As Hurricane Sandy lashes the East Coast of the United States with wind and rain, Southeast Asia is dealing with the trail of death and damage from a powerful storm that has killed at least 30 people in the region over the past few days.
Tropical Storm Son-Tinh was moving northeast along the northern Vietnamese coast on Monday after tearing the roofs off hundreds of houses and breaching flood defenses overnight, the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
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