The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi has risen to at least 143 people, with 58 others missing, the authorities reported.
Thousands of residents of Hanoi living close to the swollen Red River were evacuated on Wednesday as its waters flooded streets days after Typhoon Yagi hit Northern Vietnam.
Yagi, the most powerful typhoon in Asia this year, made landfall on the northern coast of Vietnam on Saturday and moved westwards, hitting Hanoi with gales and heavy rain. The storm also hit other provinces up the Red River, the area’s largest, collapsing a bridge on Monday.
Some schools in Hanoi have told students to stay home for the rest of the week due to flood concerns, while thousands of residents living in low-lying areas have been evacuated.
The intensity of the typhoon can be gauged from the fact that it severely damaged a large number of factories and flooded warehouses in northern Vietnam’s export-oriented industrial hubs, forcing plants to shut, with some expected to take weeks to resume full operations.
