As a super typhoon that made landfall on Saturday continues to produce severe rainfall, landslides, and flooding, officials in northern Vietnam report that at least 127 people have now perished and 54 more are missing.
On Tuesday, thousands of individuals were observed in several northern provinces abandoned on rooftops, and others made frantic requests for assistance on social media.
Vietnam’s strongest typhoon in thirty years, Typhoon Yagi, has devastated the country’s north, knocking out power to 1.5 million people.
Dashcam film from Monday captured the moment the Phong Chau bridge in Phu Tho province collapsed, sending multiple cars into the lake below.
Authorities have cautioned that even though Yagi has already subsided into a tropical depression, it will continue to cause havoc as it moves west.
With gusts of around 150 km/h (92 mph), the storm destroyed factories, tore off roofs from buildings, damaged bridges, and caused extensive flooding and landslides. 64 persons are still unaccounted for.
For present, 401 communes in 18 northern provinces have received warnings from authorities for flooding and landslides.
In the early hours of Tuesday, inhabitants of one-story homes in sections of the provinces of Thai Nguyen and Yen Bai were waiting for assistance on the rooftops of nearly fully drowned dwellings.
At least 752 people have been hurt by landslides and flooding in addition to the dead and missing, according to information released on Tuesday by ministry of agriculture authorities.
Yagi killed 24 people in southern China and the Philippines before striking Vietnam.
Typhoons may bring stronger winds and heavier rains as global warming progresses, according to meteorologists, however the impact of climate change on specific storms is complex.
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