HANOI (Reuters) – Hurricane Yagi and the landslides and floods it triggered have killed a minimum of 24 folks and injured one other 299 in northern Vietnam on the weekend, the federal government mentioned, as authorities on Monday warned of extra flooding.
The storm was Asia’s strongest storm this yr and made landfall on the nation’s northeastern coast on Saturday. It has disrupted energy provides and telecommunications in a number of components of the nation, largely in Quang Ninh and Haiphong, the federal government mentioned in an announcement issued late on Sunday.
The climate company on Monday warned of extra floods and landslides, noting that rainfall ranged between 208 millimetres and 433 millimetres (8.2 inches to 17.1 inches) in a number of components of the area over the previous 24 hours.
“Floods and landslides are damaging the environment and threatening people’s lives,” the Nationwide Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting mentioned in a report.
In a separate bulletin, the centre mentioned flood dangers are significantly excessive in Lang Son, Cao Bang, Yen Bai and Thai Ngyen provinces.
