At least 127 people are now confirmed dead, with 54 others still unaccounted for in northern Vietnam as a super typhoon that slammed the country on Saturday and triggered continued downpouring, landslides, and flooding.
Some northern provinces reported having thousands of people on the rooftops, while others posted pleas via social media on Tuesday.
Typhoon Yagi—the strongest storm to hit Vietnam in three decades—has brought destruction to many parts of the north of the country, with 1. Five million people left without electricity on Thursday.
A video recorded by one of the vehicles caught the Phong Chau bridge in Phu Tho province collapsing on Monday.
However, it has been downgraded to a tropical depression, and authorities have said that Yagi is still likely to cause more havoc as it advances westward.
An inhabitant of the nearby river, Phan Thi Tuyet, 50, said to the AFP news agency that she had never observed water levels so high.
“Anyway, all is gone,” she said while hugging her two dogs.
Kleiser: We had to elevate to higher ground to survive our lives; unfortunately, we only took what we could; all the furniture is covered by water.
This storm, with almost 92 mph winds, has broken a number of bridges, stripped roofs from buildings, deluged factories, caused floods and landslides, and caused other destruction, with 64 people still missing.
Authorities have now placed alerts for floods and landslides on 401 communes in 18 northern provinces.
Floods reached the first floor in some areas of Thai Nguyen and Yen Bai provinces in the early morning of Tuesday, and people staying in their homes were stranded on the roofs waiting for rescue.
