Typhoon Yagi weakened on Sunday and began to tropical depressionat a time when 21 deaths have been reported in Vietnam, where it caused considerable damage, including landslides.
Yagi, which devastated several regions of China and the Philippines this week, causing at least 24 deaths and dozens of injuries, hit northern Vietnam on Saturday with winds exceeding 150 kilometers per hour.
In Vietnam he killed 21 people and injured 229.revealed the state press this Sunday.
According to the source, a family of four died in a landslide in the mountainous province of Hoa Binh in northern Vietnam on Saturday evening.
The landslide occurred after several hours of heavy rain caused by the typhoon.when a hillside gave way and swallowed a house, VNExpress reported, citing local authorities.
The 51-year-old owner of the house managed to escape, but his wife, daughter and two grandchildren were buried and their bodies were found shortly afterwards.
According to the Ministry of Defense’s Rescue and Assistance Department, several other people were crushed to death by falling trees, landslides and drifting boats.
Six people, including a newborn and a one-year-old child, were killed in a landslide in the town of Sa Pa in the Hoang Lien Son Mountains in northwestern Vietnam on Sunday.
However, Vietnam’s meteorological agency downgraded Yagi from a typhoon to a tropical depression, while several neighbourhoods in the port city of Haiphong were under half a metre of water and power was out, with lines and poles damaged, according to AFP journalists.
In Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site about 70 kilometres from the city, fishermen were left dismayed by the damage caused by the typhoon on Sunday morning.
In Quang Ninh province, near Ha Long Bay, around 30 boats in the area were seriously damaged or sank, authorities said.
The typhoon also destroyed some 3,300 homes, more than 100,000 hectares of rice and other crops, as well as numerous aquaculture infrastructures in the region.
Source: Observadora
