Winds and rain battered central Vietnam on Wednesday (October 28) as deadly Typhoon Molave moved towards the country.

Terrified resident Moon Te recorded the weather worsening outside his home in Quang Nam province. Trees were blown and several had been uprooted.

Moon said: ''I am worried because our area is in the path of the storm and we can feel the strong storm approaching.''

Molave is currently forecast to strengthen into a Category 2 and according to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) will sustain winds of up to 185kph (115mph) just prior to landfall, making it the equivalent of a Category 3.

The Vietnamese government is preparing for the evacuation of up to 1.3 million people in the country's central regions, which are already experiencing widespread flooding for the past three weeks.

Officials said that at least nine people have been killed in the Philippines by the typhoon while more than 900,000 residents have been affected mostly in the Southern Tagalog region where, typhoon Molave, or Quinta as it is also known, made landfall.

Typhoon Molave is then expected to move into Cambodia and Thailand towards the end of the week.