The passage of the Typhoon Yagi to the north of Vietnam left at least 87 dead and 70 missingaccording to an updated report released by the authorities of this Asian country.
He previous balance of this typhoon, with deadly consequences also in China and Philippines was of 60 dead and 40 missing. The floods and landslides caused by the violent storm also left 752 injureddisaster management authorities said. Rescuers were scrambling Tuesday to help people trapped on roofs.
“I lost everything, everything. I had to take refuge upstairs to save my life. We couldn’t save any furniture, everything is under water now,” Phan Thi Tuyet, a 50-year-old resident of Hanoi, told AFP, riding a barge with her two dogs.
Floods and power outages across the country
Yagi, which made landfall on Saturday morning in the Haiphong area, was considered by local meteorologists to be the most intense to hit northern Vietnam in the last three decades. The storm with gusts of 149 km/h caused the bridges collapsed, damaged factories and tore off the roofs of houses before weakening on Sunday night.
The landslide, which engulfed a house, occurred after several hours of heavy rains caused by the typhoon, VNExpress reported, citing local authorities. The 51-year-old owner of the house managed to escape but his wife, daughter and two grandchildren died.
According to the Ministry of Defense’s Rescue and Assistance Department, in addition to the four victims in Hoa Binh, other people were killed by trees, landslides and drifting boats.
Six people, including a newborn and a one-year-old child, died on Sunday in a landslide in the city of Sa Pain a mountainous area in the northwest of VietnamThe tragedy came after heavy rains and violent winds, but authorities have not yet attributed the deaths to the storm.
The meteorological agency downgraded on Sunday Yagi into a tropical depression, although several districts of the port city of Haiphong They were under half a meter of water and without electricity, according to AFP journalists.
Before hitting Vietnam, Typhoon Yagi passed through the South China and the Philippineswhere it caused the killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens more.
The phenomenon It cut off power to millions of homes and businesses, flooded roads, disrupted telecommunications networks, toppled thousands of trees and paralyzed economic activity in many industrial centers.
Factories paralyzed by collateral damage
Managers and workers at industrial estates and factories in Haiphong, a coastal city of two million people, said Monday they had no electricity and were trying to save equipment from plants where metal roofs had been blown off as more rain was expected.
Bruno Jaspaert, director of the DEEP C industrial zones, which host plants from more than 150 inverters in Haiphong and neighbouring Quang Ninh province, said: “Everyone is working hard to make sites safe and stocks dry.”
The walls of a factory in Haiphong of the South Korean LG Electronics collapsedaccording to images and a Reuters witness. LU major maker of household appliances and consumer electronics said there were no casualties among its employees and acknowledged damage at its production site, saying a warehouse with refrigerators and washing machines had been flooded.
“A lot of damage,” said Hong Sun, chairman of the South Korean business association in Vietnam, when asked about the typhoon’s impact on Korean factories in coastal areas. A manager at rented factories confirmed widespread damage to roofs and prolonged power outages in northern provinces.
Background
In Vietnam, natural disastersespecially floods and landslides, caused the death or disappearance of 147 people and injured another 104 in the first eight months of this yearaccording to data from the country’s General Statistics Office.
According to a study published in July, Typhoons in the region now form closer to the coast, intensify more quickly and remain over land longer as a result of climate change.
Source: Ambito
