The final text message sent by a woman who is thought to have perished with 38 others in a refrigerated truck in Essex was to tell her mother she loved her.

Typhoon Doksuri has slammed into central Vietnam, killing four people and injuring 10 others as heavy rain and strong wind ripped off roofs and knocked over electricity poles.

Surging currents swept away 20 people on a bus in central Vietnam today, including a girl ripped from her mother’s arms, while high waters killed 27 others in separate areas as Typhoon Megi loomed offshore.

The death toll in floods in central Vietnam rose to 26, with nine other people missing, as helicopters continue to drop food to people in villages still cut off by the influx.

A tropical storm that caused widespread flooding in central Vietnam over the past week has killed 65 people, officials said today.