Agency Confirms 127 Killed In Vietnam Landslides, Floods Triggered By Typhoon Yagi ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Apple #Bái #Cai #Chau #Chuong #Duong #Haiphong #Hanoi #Lao #Lục #news #Ninh #Phong #Phu #Quang #Samsung #Tho #Yên https://osazuwaakonedo.news/agency-confirms-127-killed-in-vietnam-landslides-floods-triggered-by-typhoon-yagi/10/09/2024/ #World News Published: September 10th, 2024 Reshared: September 10, 2024 10:23 pm Disaster Management Agency in Vietnam has confirmed that over 127 people
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00:00Disaster management agency in Vietnam has confirmed that over 127 people were killed
00:06in a massive gust of wind, landslides, heavy rain and floods caused by Typhoon Yagi that
00:12started on Saturday, three years after similar disaster occurred in the Asian country.
00:18A vehicle dashboard camera footage shows the exact moment the 30-year-old Phan Chau Bridge
00:23crumbled into the Red River in the northern province of Hundo on Monday after Typhoon
00:28Yagi erupted in Vietnam.
00:31Terrifying footage also showed a massive landslide in Loc Yen in Yen Bie province in Vietnam.
00:37NC4, an independent global crisis reporting body had on Monday reported that the Typhoon
00:43Yagi has dissipated into a tropical depression after making landfall over northern Vietnam,
00:51adding, at least 20 people have been killed, 195 others have been injured, and six people
00:58were missing.
01:00Accordingly, the agency said a landslide that occurred near Tau Hung Den 2 has resulted
01:06in six deaths and 17 injuries.
01:09At least 17 people have been buried.
01:12At least 58 of the total injuries are from Quang Ninh province, and 20 are from Haiphong.
01:19An estimated 3,279 residential structures have sustained damage.
01:26Approximately 53,000 people in the coastal provinces of Quang Ninh, Haiphong, Tai Binh,
01:33Nam Dinh, and Ninh Binh have been evacuated.
01:38One ship is missing, and 14 others were sunk.
01:42The naval port in Vietnam has also been shot.
01:45Authorities ordered the suspension of operations at four airports on Saturday, September 7,
01:53in anticipation of adverse weather conditions from Typhoon Yagi, including Vang Don International
01:59Airport, IATA, VDO, Cat Bai International Airport, IATA, HPH, Noi Bai International
02:08Airport, IATA, Hang An Do Xuan Airport, IATA, THD.
02:14Updates indicate all of the affected airports have resumed operations.
02:19Expect associated disruptions, the agency stated on Monday.
02:25Al Jazeera also on Monday reported that at least 24 people have been killed and 299 injured
02:32in Vietnam amid landslides and floods triggered by Typhoon Yagi.
02:37According to the Qatar-based news network, the typhoon was Asia's most powerful storm
02:42this year and made landfall on Vietnam's northeastern coast on Saturday, after causing havoc in
02:48China and the Philippines.
02:50Among the victims were six people, including a newborn baby and a one-year-old boy, who
02:56were killed in a landslide in the Ho An Nguyen Son Mountains of northwestern Vietnam.
03:02Their bodies were discovered on Sunday, a local official told the AFP news agency.
03:09Other victims included a family of four who were killed after heavy rain caused a hillside
03:13to collapse onto a house in Montenegro's Hoa Binh province in northern Vietnam, state
03:18media reported.
03:20The Vietnamese government said the storm disrupted power supplies and telecommunications in several
03:26parts of the country, mostly in Quang Ninh and Haiphong in the northeast.
03:31Floods and landslides are damaging the environment and threatening people's lives, the National
03:37Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting said in a report.
03:41Yagi weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, but several areas of the port city
03:47of Haiphong were under half a meter, 1.6 feet of water and there was no electricity.
03:54At Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, about 70 kilometers, 43 miles, off the coast
04:02from the city, the Disaster Management Authority said 30 vessels sank after being pounded by
04:08strong wind and waves.
04:10The typhoon also damaged nearly 3,300 houses, and more than 120,000 hectares, 296,500 acres,
04:21of crops in the north of the country, the authority said.
04:26Before arriving in Vietnam, Yagi tore through southern China and the Philippines, killing
04:31at least 24 people and injuring dozens of others.
04:36Typhoons in the region are now forming closer to the coast, intensifying more rapidly, and
04:41staying over landfall.
04:43Longer due to climate change, according to a study published in July, the news network
04:49stated.
04:50Rotas News Agency reported on Tuesday that the death toll in Vietnam from ages was strong
04:57this year reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides,
05:04burying homes, sweeping away a bridge and now threatening the capital Hanoi.
05:09In several northern provinces, including the suburbs of Hanoi, residents waded through
05:15knee-high floods.
05:17Brown water cascaded down pedestrian steps.
05:21Landslides and floods triggered by the typhoon have killed at least 127 people in northern
05:26Vietnam and 54 others were missing, the disaster management agency said on Tuesday in its latest
05:33update on the situation.
05:35We are praying for the thousands of Americans under mandatory evacuations on their orders
05:40outweighed.
05:42Most of the victims were killed in landslides and flash floods, the agency said, adding
05:47that 764 people have been injured.
05:52The typhoon meant landfall on Saturday on Vietnam's northeastern coast, devastating
05:57a swath of industrial and residential areas and bringing heavy rain that caused floods
06:02and landslides.
06:04Several rivers in northern Vietnam have risen to alarming levels, leaving villages and residential
06:10areas inundated, according to the disaster agency and state media.
06:15Authorities across the north on Tuesday subsequently banned or limited traffic on other bridges
06:21across the river, including Truong Duong Bridge, one of the largest in Hanoi, according to
06:27state media reports.
06:29Water levels on the Red River are rising rapidly, the government said on Tuesday in a post on
06:35its Facebook account.
06:37Using loudspeakers that broadcast communist propaganda in the past, officials warned
06:42residents of the capital's riverside Long Bien district to be on alert for possible
06:47flooding and to be ready to evacuate the area.
06:51Other northern areas, including the industrial hubs of Bac Giang and Tai Wuyen, were also
06:57facing severe flooding, state media reported.
07:01It was not immediately clear if Samsung Electronics and Apple supplier Foxconn, based in Tai
07:07Wuyen and Bac Giang, respectively, were affected.
07:12Evacuations were also taking place from flood-prone areas in Bac Giang province, the government
07:17said, when a typhoon and floods have caused damage estimated for now to be worth $300
07:23billion.
07:24More than 4,600 soldiers have been deployed in the province to support the evacuation
07:32and support flood victims.
07:35Taiwan's foreign ministry asked China to notify it ahead of any release of dam water upstream.
07:42Lao Cai province has reported the highest casualties, with 19 people killed and 36 missing,
07:49mostly in landslides, according to the Disaster Management Agency.
07:54The government has yet not provided estimates of the cost of the damage caused by the typhoon,
08:00but residents in the coastal cities of Haiphong and Quang Ninh, where the storm first hit
08:05Vietnam, said they lost everything.
08:09Floods have also inundated 162,828 hectares and 29,543 hectares of cash crops and damaged
08:19nearly 50,000 houses in northern Vietnam, according to the agency as reported by Reuters
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