Flooding sweeps away a bus and a bridge collapses in Vietnam as storm deaths rise to 59

HANOI, Vietnam — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding Monday as extra rain fell following a typhoon in Vietnam that has brought about a minimum of 59 deaths within the Southeast Asian nation and disrupted companies and factories within the export-focused northern industrial hubs, state media reported.

9 folks died when Typhoon Yagi made landfall in Vietnam on Saturday earlier than weakening to a tropical despair, and a minimum of 50 others have died within the consequent floods and landslides, state media VN Specific reported. The water ranges of a number of rivers in northern Vietnam had been dangerously excessive.

A passenger bus carrying 20 folks was swept right into a flooded stream by a landslide in mountainous Cao Bang province Monday morning. Rescuers had been deployed, however landslides blocked their path.

In Phu Tho province, rescue operations had been persevering with after a metal bridge over the engorged Crimson River collapsed Monday morning. Experiences mentioned 10 automobiles and vans together with two motorbikes fell into the river. Three folks had been pulled out of the river and brought to the hospital, however 13 others had been lacking.

Pham Truong Son, 50, informed VNExpress that he was driving on the bridge on his bike when he heard a loud noise. Earlier than he knew what was taking place, he was falling into the river. “I felt like I used to be drowned to the underside of the river,” Son informed the newspaper, including that he managed to swim and maintain on to a drifting banana tree to remain afloat earlier than he was rescued.

Dozens of companies in Haiphong province had not resumed manufacturing by Monday due to the in depth injury to their factories, reported state media Lao Dong newspaper. The report mentioned that the roofs of a number of factories had been blown aside whereas water had seeped into industrial items, damaging completed items and costly tools. Some firms mentioned they nonetheless didn’t have electrical energy on Monday and that it could take a minimum of a month to have the ability to resume manufacturing.

Toppled electrical energy poles meant that Haiphong and Quang Ninh provinces had been nonetheless with out energy on Monday. The 2 provinces are industrial hubs, housing many factories that export items, together with EV maker VinFast and Apple suppliers Pegatrong and USI. Authorities are nonetheless assessing the injury to industrial items, however preliminary estimates present that almost 100 enterprises had been broken by the hurricane, leading to losses amounting to thousands and thousands of {dollars}, the newspaper reported.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited town of Haiphong on Sunday and accepted a package deal of $4.62 million to assist the port metropolis recuperate.

Hurricane Yagi was the strongest hurricane to hit Vietnam in a long time when it made landfall Saturday with winds as much as 92 miles per hour. It weakened Sunday, however the nation’s meteorological company warned that the persevering with downpours might trigger floods and landslides.

On Sunday, a landslide killed six folks together with an toddler and injured 9 others within the city of Sa Pa, a preferred trekking base identified for its terraced rice fields and mountains. Total, state media reported 21 deaths and a minimum of 299 folks injured from the weekend.

Skies had been overcast within the capital, Hanoi, with occasional rain Monday morning as employees cleared the uprooted timber, fallen billboards and toppled electrical energy poles. Heavy rain continued in northwestern Vietnam and forecasters mentioned it might exceed 15 inches in locations.

Yagi additionally broken agricultural land the place rice is usually grown.

Earlier than hitting Vietnam, Yagi brought about a minimum of 20 deaths within the Philippines and 4 deaths in southern China.

Chinese language authorities mentioned infrastructure losses throughout the island province of Hainan amounted to $102 million with 57,000 homes collapsed or broken, energy and water outages and roads broken or impassable as a result of fallen timber. Yagi made a second landfall in Guangdong, a mainland province neighboring Hainan, on Friday night time.

Storms like Hurricane Yagi are “getting stronger as a result of local weather change, primarily as a result of hotter ocean waters present extra vitality to gas the storms, resulting in elevated wind speeds and heavier rainfall,” mentioned Benjamin Horton, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore.