By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam said on Tuesday that typhoon Yagi, landslides and floods have left 59 people dead and many missing in Vietnam’s northern region.
The ministry stated that the natural disasters also injured 247 people, including 157 in Quang Ninh province and 40 in Hai Phong City; sank 25 unmanned vessels, mostly fishing boats; damaged over 113,000 hectares of rice and more than 22,000 hectares of other crops; damaged or swept away 1,500 aquaculture cages; killed 190,000 fowls; and uprooted or damaged nearly 121,700 trees.
A steel bridge in Vietnam’s northern Phu Tho province collapsed on Monday morning, caused 10 automobiles and two motorbikes to fall into the Red River and leaving 13 people missing, reported VNA.
It also reported that 21 people in Cao Bang province were killed and missing by landslides and 15 people in Lao Cai province faced the same fate.
According to the ministry Typhoon Yagi was the strongest storm to hit Vietnam’s northern region in the past 30 years.
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