At least 12 dead in Vietnam of Typhoon Bualoi

Strong rains and strong winds of the Typhon Bualoi have flooded roads, eliminated the roofs and caused at least 12 deaths in the center of Vietnam, before weakening towards a tropical storm which moved to Laos on Monday, reported the state media.

The storm has torn the communities, damaging houses, schools and electricity posts, sweeping temporary bridges and flooding and low water passages in several provinces. Floods in the submerged cities of vehicles and many communities of the Highlands have been cut.

State media said that the rescue teams sought 17 missing fishermen.

In the middle of the morning, the center of the storm was on land near the border of Nghe a province and Laos, with winds of 74 km / h. In the afternoon, he pushed deep into Laos and weakened in a tropical depression, according to the National Center for Hydro-Météorological Forecast, with winds from 39 to 61 km / h.

Vietnamese authorities had previously anchored fishing boats and suspended operations in four coastal airports. Nine of the deaths occurred in the picturesque province of Ninh Binh, where strong winds collapsed.

A local official in Thanh Hoa province, Nguyen Ngoc Hung, died when a tree fell on him while he was going home after a night of storm preparations, according to information. One person was killed after being swept away by flood waters at Hue City. Another death was reported to Danang.

Mortal path through the Philippines

In the province of Quang Tri, strong winds broke the strings anchoring a shelter fishing boat, sending nine crew members and the shipping ship. Four managed to swim on the ground. In the province of Gia Lai, families said they had lost contact with eight fishermen during a fishing trip.

The state media said that more than 347,000 households lost power before the typhoon touched the earth arter just after midnight on Sunday. Strong gusts have torn the corrugated sheet roofs of houses along motorways and reversed concrete pillars.

In Phong Nha, known for some of the largest caves in the world, residents have described “terrible bursts” of wind and pouring rain. “No one dares to go out,” a local resident told the VNEXPRESS state media.

Vietnam has evacuated thousands of the center and northern provinces while the storm approached faster than expected. He came to the ground in the coastal province north of Ha Tinh around 12:30 p.m., bringing winds up to 133 km / h, overvoltages over one meter and high rain.

Bualoi had already left at least 20 deaths in the Philippines since Friday, mainly drownings and falls, and eliminated power in several cities, officials said. He forced around 23,000 families to evacuate more than 1,400 emergency shelters.

The typhoon last week Ragasa killed dozens across Asia:

It was the second major storm to threaten Asia in a week. Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest to strike for years, has left at least 28 deaths in the North of the Philippines and Taiwan before touching the land in China and dissipating Thursday in Vietnam.

Global warming makes storms – like the WIPA in July Storm – stronger and weaker, according to experts, because the warmer oceans offer tropical storms with more fuel, causing more intense winds, stronger precipitation and changing precipitation diagrams through East Asia.