The death toll in Vietnam from Asia’s worst storm, this year, reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides.
It is burying homes, sweeping away a bridge and now threatening the capital Hanoi.
Residents waded through knee-high floods in several northern provinces, including the suburbs of Hanoi. Brown water cascaded down pedestrian steps.
Landslides and floods triggered by the typhoon have killed at least 127 people in northern Vietnam.
And, 54 others are missing, the disaster management agency said on Tuesday in its latest update on the situation.
Most of the victims died in landslides and flash floods, the agency said. It added that 764 people sustained injuries.
The typhoon made landfall on Saturday on Vietnam’s northeastern coast, devastating a swathe of industrial and residential areas. It brought heavy rain that caused floods and landslides.
It had previously hit the Philippines and the southern Chinese island of Hainan.
“I have to leave everything behind as the water is rising too fast,” said Nguyen Thi Tham, a 60-year-old resident living in the flood-prone area near the Red River in Hanoi, by phone.
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She had only been able to take her dog with her.
Tham is among several people evacuated on a boat to a safe shelter early on Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear how many Hanoi residents needed to be evacuated.
According to the disaster agency and state media, several rivers in northern Vietnam have risen to alarming levels, leaving villages and residential areas inundated.
A 30-year-old bridge over the Red River in the northern province of Phu Tho collapsed on Monday, leaving eight people missing.
Authorities across the north, on Tuesday, subsequently banned or limited traffic on other bridges across the river.
The ban extended to the Chuong Duong Bridge, one of the largest in Hanoi, according to state media reports.
“Water levels on the Red River are rising rapidly,” the government said on Tuesday in a post on its Facebook account. (Reuters)
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