Typhoon Bualoi ripped roofs from buildings and uprooted electrical poles along Vietnam's coast, killing at least 11 people, local and national officials said on Monday.

The storm -- the 10th to hit Vietnam this year -- made landfall late on Sunday, generating winds of 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour.

Thousands of houses and businesses have been damaged or destroyed, authorities in three provinces told AFP.

Images published by AFP showed corrugated metal roofs blown off buildings and household debris strewn across saturated streets in coastal Nghe An province.

"The wind blew my roof to the sky and then it fell down, breaking everything. I had to cover my head and rushed to my neighbour's house to be safe," Trinh Thi Le, 71, in central Quang Tri province, was quoted as saying by state

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