Three killed after Typhoon Kajiki lashes Vietnam, floods Hanoi streets

Ten others wounded and astir 7,000 homes damaged aft Kajiki batters Vietnam with fierce winds and torrential rains.

At slightest 3 radical person been killed successful Vietnam aft Typhoon Kajiki battered bluish and cardinal areas of the country, bringing fierce winds and torrential rains that collapsed homes, felled trees and turned streets successful the capital, Hanoi, into rivers.

The storm, which made landfall successful Vietnam connected Monday, besides near astatine slightest 10 radical wounded, authorities said connected Tuesday.

It has present crossed into Laos, weakened into a tropical depression.

Vietnam’s government, successful a statement, said Kajiki damaged astir 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares (71,166 acres) of atom plantings and felled immoderate 18,000 trees. It besides brought down 331 energy poles, causing wide blackouts successful Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho provinces.

The country’s nationalist upwind bureau forecast continued downpours done Tuesday, with immoderate areas apt to get up to 150 millimetres (6 inches) of rainfall successful six hours, perchance causing flash floods and landslides.

In Hanoi, section media reported that continued dense rains person caused wide flooding, submerging streets, stalling vehicles and snarling traffic.

According to VN Express, the floodwaters connected National Highway 6, which links Hanoi with northwestern provinces, reached astir 1 metre (3.2 feet) successful immoderate places, stalling cars and motorbikes.

Ahead of the storm’s landfall, Vietnamese authorities evacuated immoderate 44,000 radical crossed 5 provinces and called each sportfishing boats backmost to harbour.

The subject has besides mobilised much than 346,000 unit and 8,200 vehicles, including 5 aircraft, to enactment tempest relief, according to Viet Nam News.

The subject has instructed its troops to stay connected precocious alert and hole for accelerated deployment successful areas susceptible to landslides and flash floods.

Human-caused clime alteration is driving much aggravated and unpredictable upwind patterns that tin marque destructive floods and storms much likely, peculiarly successful the tropics.

In Vietnam, much than 100 radical person been killed oregon near missing from earthy disasters successful the archetypal 7 months of 2025, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Economic losses person been estimated astatine much than $21m.

Vietnam suffered $3.3bn successful economical losses past September arsenic a effect of Typhoon Yagi, which swept crossed the country’s northbound and caused hundreds of deaths.

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