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Hanoi a ‘big pool’: Typhoon Bualoi inflicts death, floods on Vietnam
Lingering flooding from Typhoon Bualoi devastated homes, infrastructure and farmland across swaths of Vietnam on Tuesday, with the death toll rising to 26 and dozens more missing.
Rainfall from the storm inundated the capital Hanoi, bringing large parts of the city to a standstill and rerouting dozens of flights.
Bualoi made landfall in central Vietnam late Sunday, packing winds of 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour, and remained over land for almost 12 hours.
It arrived in Vietnam after battering parts of the Philippines, where 400,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes.
The death toll in the Philippines rose to 37 on Tuesday following the recovery of 10 additional bodies in the devastated central island of Masbate. Seven of the latest victims were crushed by falling trees, regional disaster officials said.
"This typhoon -- the 10th that hit Vietnam this year -- was a serious natural disaster, bringing a combination of strong winds, huge flash floods and widespread flooding," said Mai Van Khiem, head of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Its lengthy duration over Vietnam was "very rare", Khiem added.
The typhoon and its aftermath had killed 26 people and injured more than 100 in Vietnam by Tuesday, the environment ministry said, with 30 others missing.
More than 136,000 houses were damaged, and several thousand families were stranded in central Ha Tinh province, the ministry added.
I have not experienced such a strong typhoon in several decades," Le Hong Luyen, 62, from Nghe An province told AFP. "My house and garden are all flooded.
The storm also devastated 225 square kilometres (about 85 square miles) of rice fields and other cropland, uprooted tens of thousands of trees and downed electrical poles, causing power outages in several central areas on Tuesday.
Disaster and weather authorities warned of rising river levels and possible landslides in mountainous areas.
Heavy rain that began late Monday also caused widespread flooding in the capital Hanoi.
"The floodwater reached almost the top of my motorbike. It was a terrible morning," said Hanoi resident Tran Thanh Huong, who spent two hours trying to reach her office on Tuesday morning before giving up.
The flooding was the worst in the city since 2008, and had turned Hanoi into "a big pool," added resident Nguyen Luu Tien.
"Cars and motorbikes were floating everywhere, even in the city centre," the 52-year-old said.
Images on social media showed military trucks transporting children through flooded streets from a secondary school west of Hanoi, as parents elsewhere pleaded on Facebook for similar assistance in the city's north.
"It's just water everywhere here," wrote one mother.
Other schools said they would stay open for students and teachers who could not reach their homes.
Poor visibility caused by the heavy rain forced the rerouting of dozens of flights headed to Hanoi's Noi Bai airport, aviation authorities said.
Vietnam is usually hit by up to 10 storms annually, but forecasters have warned it faces two to three more this year.
Human-driven climate change is turbocharging extreme weather events like typhoons, making them ever more deadly and destructive.
Storms caused Vietnam $371 million in damage from January to August, triple the amount over the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said.
Last September, Typhoon Yagi killed hundreds of people in Vietnam and caused economic losses worth $3.3 billion.
Source: Hindustan Times
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