HANOI — Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters flooded streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered the country’s north, killing at least 152 people.
Asia’s most powerful typhoon this year, Yagi brought gales and heavy rain as it moved westwards after landfall on Saturday (Sept 7), collapsing a bridge this week while scythed through provinces along the Red River, the area’s largest.
“This is the worst flood I have seen in 30 years,” Hanoi resident Tran Le Quyen, 42, told Reuters, adding that she had to move furniture from her flooded home to higher ground.
“It was dry yesterday morning. Now the entire street is flooded. We couldn’t sleep last night.”
The typhoon and subsequent landslides and floods have killed 152 people while 140 were missing, the government estimated.
Some schools in Hanoi have told students to stay home for the rest of the week, while thousands of residents of low-lying areas have been evacuated, government and state media said.
Source link : http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=66e1bc73acdc432a83e3a829c6966761&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asiaone.com%2Fasia%2Fvietnam-death-toll-typhoon-yagi-141-hanoi-faces-flood-risk&c=6444102977065676622&mkt=en-us
Author :
Publish date : 2024-09-10 20:42:00
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.