A busy metal bridge over an engorged Purple River in northern Vietnam’s Phu Tho province collapsed Monday morning following a weekend of heavy rain and wind introduced by Storm Yagi.
The nation’s state media reported that three folks had been rescued and no casualties so removed from the collapse.
The general dying toll from Yagi which struck the nation on Saturday elevated to 59 on Monday whereas a minimum of 299 folks had been injured, officers stated.
The strongest hurricane to hit Vietnam in many years, the nation’s meteorological company now downgraded Yagi to a tropical storm, however warned that heavy downpours may comply with, triggering floods and landslides.
Energy traces and agricultural lands are additionally broken
A current landslide as a result of heavy rains killed six folks together with an toddler and injured 9 others on Sunday in Sa Pa city, a preferred trekking base recognized for its terraced rice fields and mountains. Native tourism in Sa Pa has been suspended till additional discover from authorities.
The storm additionally knocked out electrical energy poles within the Quang Ninh and Haiphong provinces. At the least three million folks had been left with out electrical energy. It’s unclear how a lot of the restoration work has been accomplished.
The hurricane additionally broken very important agricultural land, practically 117,000 hectares the place principally rice is grown.
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