Asia’s most powerful storm this year, Typhoon Yagi, killed dozens of people in Vietnam and caused widespread damage, according to Reuters.
Thirty-five people died and 24 were missing, mostly due to landslides and flooding, according to Vietnam’s disaster management agency.
The typhoon hit Vietnam’s northeastern coast on Saturday, where major production facilities of domestic and foreign companies are located. It cut power to millions of households and companies, flooded motorways, disrupted telecommunications networks, felled a bridge and thousands of trees.
Managers and workers at industrial parks and factories in Haiphong said on Monday that they had no electricity and were trying to save equipment from rain in the factories. Bruno Jaspaert, head of DEEP C industrial zones, which hosted plants from more than 150 investors in Haiphong and the neighbouring province of Quang Ninh, stated:
Everyone is scrambling to make sites safe and stocks dry.
The walls of South Korea’s LG Electronics factory in Haiphong collapsed, according to local reports. The major manufacturer of home appliances and electronics, said there were no casualties among its employees, but acknowledged damage to its production site. The company also noted that a warehouse with refrigerators and washing machines was flooded.
The manager of leased factories confirmed widespread roof damage and prolonged power cuts in northern provinces. On Monday, a typhoon collapsed a bridge in Phu Tho province. A senior official of the provincial transport department noted the importance of the structure in the region’s logistics.
This is normally a busy bridge, a key bridge in the province.
State electricity supplier EVN revealed that more than 5.7 million consumers were left without power over the weekend due to dozens of broken power lines. However, power was restored to almost 75 per cent of those affected on Monday.
