Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living close to the swollen Red River as its waters deluged streets days after Typhoon Yagi assaulted the country’s north, killing at least 152 people at press time.
Yagi, now touted as Asia’s most violent typhoon this year, had brought gales and heavy rain as it moved westwards after landfall on Saturday, destroying a bridge this week while scything through provinces along the area’s largest water body, Red River.
The typhoon and subsequent landslides and floods have killed about 152 people while 140 were reported to be missing, according to the government’s estimates.
Some schools in Hanoi have directed students to remain at home for the rest of the week, while thousands of residents living in low-lying areas have been evacuated, according to government and state media said.
Yagi had utterly wreaked havoc on several factories and flooded many warehouses in coastal export-oriented industrial hubs located east of Hanoi, compelling closures, with some of these businesses only expected to resume fully in several weeks time.
These disruptions threaten global supply chains as Vietnam is host to large operations of multinationals that ship majorly to the United States, Europe and other developed nations.
