Red Cross district chairman Hoang Tien Thien distributes emergency food aid and medicine to a villager stranded in the floods that followed typhoon Lekima, in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province October 7, 2007. The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies are providing emergency funds to Vietnam Red Cross relief stocks. The IFRC is also preparing an emergency appeal to purchase food and basic necessities for over 12,000 families. At least 67 people were killed or missing after a typhoon, floods and landslides cut power and closed roads in what officials in two Vietnamese provinces on Sunday described as some of the worst flooding in decades.
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