HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam has shut down airports, closed schools, and initiated mass evacuations as it prepares for the most powerful storm so far this year.

Typhoon Kajiki was packing winds of up to 166 kph (103 mph) as it approached Vietnam’s central coast and was forecast to grow stronger before making landfall on Monday afternoon, the country’s weather agency said.

“This is an extremely dangerous fast-moving storm,” the government said in a statement Sunday night, warning that Kajiki would bring heavy rains, flooding and landslides.

The storm was 150 km off the central coast as of 0000 GMT, the weather agency said. The eye of the storm is forecast to hit an area between Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces around 0900 GMT.

With a long coastline facing the South China Sea, Vietnam is pron

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