« C“It’s been years since I’ve seen a typhoon of this magnitude,” Tran Thi Hoa, a resident of Haiphong, a coastal city in northern Vietnam that was devastated, told AFP. Super Typhoon Yagi has already killed three people and injured 95 in southern China, and about 20 people have died in the Philippines. According to official reports, on the morning of Saturday, September 7, 2024, the storm killed another person on Vietnam’s northern coast.
The storm is called a typhoon because this very violent tropical cyclone took shape in the South China Sea. The superlative super typhoon emphasizes the violence of the swirling winds concentrated around a point moving from China to Southeast Asia.
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Yagi made landfall in Vietnam’s northern provinces of Quang Ninh and Haiphong around midday, uprooting thousands of trees and sweeping boats out to sea, state media VNExpress reported. In Haiphong, metal roofs and billboards flew across the city as strong winds and heavy rains brought by the typhoon swept through the city.
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Before reaching the mainland, Yagi uprooted hundreds of trees on Co To Island, off Quang Ninh, Vietnam. Several office buildings, schools and homes on the island had their roofs blown away by the strong winds. Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said […] Read more
