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Typhoon Yagi: more than 140 dead in Vietnam as flood waters threaten central Hanoi
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Residents of capital evacuated and school students told to stay at home while entire village reportedly buried by landslide in northern Vietnam
Thousands of residents of Vietnam’s capital living close to the swollen Red River have been evacuated as its waters flooded streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered northern Vietnam, with the death toll rising to at least 143 people.
Yagi, the most powerful typhoon to hit Asia this year, made landfall on the northern coast of Vietnam on Saturday and moved westwards, hitting Hanoi with gales and heavy rain. The storm also hit other provinces up the Red River, the area’s largest, collapsing a bridge on Monday.
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