At least 21 people were killed and more than 200 injured after Typhoon Yagi carved a path of destruction through northern Vietnam, the country’s state media reported on Monday.
The storm, one of the most powerful of 2024, made landfall on Saturday in the coastal province of Quang Ninh, packing torrential rain and winds of up to 127 miles per hour, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. It triggered deadly landslides, flooded towns and blew roofs off homes, local media reported, before weakening into a tropical depression by Sunday morning.
Last week, it smashed into the Philippines, where it killed 20 people, before slamming southern China, where it claimed four more lives and caused about a million people to flee their homes.
By Sunday night, a total of 21 people had been killed across northern Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News reported. Among the casualties were six people, including an infant and a one-year-old child, who died after a landslide swept through a residential area in the mountainous province of Lao Cai, near Vietnam’s northern border with China, the news agency said.
Another four people from one family died in a landslide in Hoa Binh Province, about 20 miles southwest of Hanoi, the capital, state media said.
After making landfall, the storm moved inland, and continued into the country’s highland northwest region, according to the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Center said. It was expected to dissipate by Monday, the center said on Saturday afternoon in its last update about the storm.
In the capital, Hanoi, where one person was killed, the storm flooded streets, damaged roofs and caused widespread power outages, Vietnam News reported. It toppled thousands of trees, including some of the city’s oldest trees, which were considered landmarks, state media said.
At least 229 people have been injured, with the majority occurring in Quang Ninh and the neighboring coastal province of Hai Phong, Vietnam News reported. At least 8,000 homes were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, including rice and fruit trees, have been damaged or flooded, it reported.
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