Vietnamese authorities moved in this Saturday to 262 dead There are already 83 people missing Typhoon Yagiwhich hit the north of the country last weekend before continuing as a tropical depression towards Thailand and Burma (Myanmar).
Emergency teams are working to assist victims and provide them with aid, including food and clean water, after the situation improved due to flooding caused by Yagi, considered the most powerful typhoon this year in Asia and the most powerful in three decades in Vietnam.
Most of the victims are concentrated in provinces such as Lao Cai, with 111 dead and 61 missing, Yen Bai (53 dead and 2 missing) and Cao Bang (43 dead and 9 missing), among others, according to the latest report from the ministry. Vietnam’s disaster agency.
The typhoon, which caused flooding and landslides, also left more than 1,900 people injured and more than 168,000 homes damaged and 183,000 hectares of flooded rice fields.
The NGO Blue Dragon Children said in a statement yesterday that as Hanoi recovers from the floods, many families in the most remote areas of the north have started receiving aid several days after being cut off by the floods.
NGO workers have been able to deliver aid to remote areas of the northern provinces of Dien Bien and Ha Giang, among the country’s poorest and home to many ethnic minorities. Although the situation has improved, it continues to rain. There is a risk of further landslides.
The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said: It is still too early to assess all the damage caused. by the typhoon in Vietnam and authorities have requested help from international agencies to respond to the natural disaster.
The Yagi struck earlier Philippines (21 deaths) and China (2 deaths) and, after crossing Vietnam, where it was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday, it caused serious flooding in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar).
