People clearing the falling trees blocking the road after Typhoon Yagi, in Vietnam.
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At least 21 people were dead while over 200 were injured as Typhoon Yagi made a devastating impact in northern Vietnam over the weekend, the country’s state media reported on Monday.
The storm reported as one of the most powerful in 2024, made landfall on Saturday in the coastal province of Quang Ninh with winds of up to 127 miles per hour, equivalent to those of a Category 3 hurricane. It triggered deadly landslides, flooded towns and blew roofs off homes, local media reported, before weakening into a tropical depression by Sunday morning.
Last week, Yagi smashed into the Philippines, where it killed at least 20 people, before claiming four more lives in southern China and causing about a million people to flee their homes.
By Sunday night, at least 21 people had been killed across northern Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News agency reported. That included six people, including an infant and a one-year-old child, who died after a landslide swept through a residential area in the mountainous province of Lao Cai, near Vietnam’s northern border with China, the news agency said.
Another four people from one family died in a landslide in Hoa Binh Province, about 20 miles southwest of Hanoi, the capital, state media said.
As the storm moved inland across Vietnam’s mountainous northwest, rainfall led to flooding in several provinces and forced thousands to evacuate, state media said. On Monday morning, part of a bridge connecting the districts of Lam Thao and Tam Nong was swept away by floodwaters, the Vietnam News agency said. No casualties had been reported, but people and vehicles were believed to be on the bridge at the time.
In Hanoi, where at least one person was killed, the storm flooded streets, damaged roofs and caused widespread power outages, Vietnam News reported. It toppled thousands of trees, including some of the city’s oldest trees, which were considered landmarks, state media said.
At least 229 people were injured as a result of the storm, many of them in Quang Ninh, the Vietnam News agency reported. At least 8,000 homes were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, including rice and fruit trees, were damaged or flooded, it said.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong emerged relatively unscathed from Super Typhoon Yagi only because the storm stayed relatively far away from the territory, a weather expert said on Friday.
The Meterology expert in Hong Kong said things could have been much worse, had Yagi come closer. Yagi remained around 330 kilometres away from Hong Kong at its closest point.
颱風「八木」在越南造成至少21人死亡後消亡
根據越南官方媒體週一報道，週末颱風「八木」對越南北部造成毀滅性影響，造成至少 21 人死亡、200 多人受傷。
據報道，這場風暴是 2024 年最強大的風暴之一，於週六在沿海省份廣寧省登陸，風速高達每小時 127 英里，相當於 3 級颶風。 據當地媒體報道，它引發了致命的山體滑坡，淹沒了城鎮，炸毀了房屋的屋頂，然後在周日早上減弱為熱帶低氣壓。
上週，「八木」襲擊了菲律賓，造成至少 20 人死亡，隨後在中國南部造成四人死亡，並導致約一百萬人逃離家園。
根據國營越南通訊社報道，截至週日晚上，越南北部地區至少有 21 人死亡。 通訊社稱，山崩席捲越南北部與中國北部邊境的老街省山區的一個居民區，造成六人死亡，其中包括一名嬰兒和一名一歲兒童。
官方媒體稱，位於首都河內西南約 20 英里的和平省，一個家庭的另外四人在一場山體滑坡中喪生。
官方媒體稱，隨著風暴穿過越南西北部山區向內陸移動，降雨導致多個省份發生洪水，迫使數千人撤離。 越南通訊社稱，週一早上，連接林濤區和三農區的一座橋樑的一部分被洪水沖毀。 目前尚無人員傷亡的報道，但據信當時橋上有人員和車輛。
根據《越南新聞》報道，在河內，風暴淹沒了街道，損壞了屋頂，並造成大規模停電，造成至少一人死亡。 官方媒體稱，數千棵樹被推倒，其中包括該市一些最古老的樹，這些樹被認為是地標建築。
根據越南通訊社報道，風暴造成至少 229 人受傷，其中許多人在廣寧省。 報告稱，至少 8,000 棟房屋受損，數十萬英畝農作物（包括水稻和果樹）受損或被洪水淹沒。
與此同時，一位氣象專家週五表示，香港在超級颱風「八木」襲擊中相對未受損，只是因為風暴距離香港相對較遠。
氣象專家表示，如果八木靠近的話，情況可能會更糟。 八木距離香港最近點仍約330公里。
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