Folks carry belongings in flood triggered by Hurricane Yagi in Lang Son province, Vietnam, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.
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HANOI, Vietnam — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding Monday as extra rain fell on northern Vietnam from a former hurricane that has induced not less than 59 deaths within the Southeast Asian nation, state media reported.
9 individuals died through the hurricane, which made landfall in Vietnam on Saturday earlier than weakening to a despair, and 50 others died through the consequent floods and landslides. The water ranges of a number of rivers in northern Vietnam had been dangerously excessive.
A passenger bus carrying 20 individuals was swept right into a flooded stream by a landslide in mountainous Cao Bang province Monday morning. Rescuers had been deployed however landslides blocked the trail to the place the incident befell.
In Phu Tho province, rescue operations had been persevering with after a metal bridge over the engorged Pink River collapsed Monday morning. Reviews mentioned 10 vehicles and vans together with two motorbikes fell into the river. Three individuals had been pulled out of the river and brought to the hospital, however 13 others had been lacking.
Pham Truong Son, 50, advised VNExpress that he was driving on the bridge on his motorbike when he heard a loud noise. Earlier than he knew what was occurring, he was falling into the river. “I felt like I used to be drowned to the underside of the river,” Son advised the newspaper, including that he managed to swim and maintain on to a drifting banana tree to remain afloat earlier than he was rescued.
Hurricane Yagi was the strongest hurricane to hit Vietnam in a long time when it made landfall Saturday with winds as much as 149 kph (92 mph). It weakened to a tropical despair Sunday, however the nation’s meteorological company has nonetheless warned the persevering with downpours may trigger floods and landslides.
On Sunday, a landslide killed six individuals together with an toddler and injured 9 others in Sa Pa city, a preferred trekking base recognized for its terraced rice fields and mountains. Total, state media reported 21 deaths and not less than 299 individuals injured from the weekend.
Skies had been overcast within the capital, Hanoi, with occasional rain Monday morning as staff cleared the uprooted bushes, fallen billboards and toppled electrical energy poles. Heavy rain continued in northwestern Vietnam and forecasters mentioned it may exceed 40 centimeters (15 inches) in locations.
Initially, not less than 3 million individuals had been left with out electrical energy in Quang Ninh and Haiphong provinces, and it is unclear how a lot has been restored.
The 2 provinces are industrial hubs, housing many factories that export items together with EV maker VinFast and Apple suppliers Pegatrong and USI. Manufacturing unit staff advised The Related Press on Sunday that many industrial parks had been inundated and the roofs of many factories had been blown away.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited Haiphong metropolis on Sunday and authorized a bundle of $4.62 million to assist the port metropolis get better.
Yagi additionally broken agricultural land, almost 116,192 hectares the place rice is usually grown.
Earlier than hitting Vietnam, Yagi induced not less than 20 deaths within the Philippines final week and 4 deaths in southern China.
Chinese language authorities mentioned infrastructure losses throughout the Hainan island province amounted to $102 million with 57,000 homes collapsed or broken, energy and water outages and roads broken or impassable as a consequence of fallen bushes. Yagi made a second landfall in Guangdong, a mainland province neighboring Hainan, on Friday night time.
Storms like Hurricane Yagi had been “getting stronger as a consequence of local weather change, primarily as a result of hotter ocean waters present extra vitality to gasoline the storms, resulting in elevated wind speeds and heavier rainfall,” mentioned Benjamin Horton, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore.
