The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flooding it caused rose to 254 on Friday (13), authorities said, as floodwaters receded and search efforts continued.
The Southeast Asian country is still recovering from the strongest storm to hit Asia this year, which made landfall on the northeast coast on Saturday.
More than 820 people were injured and 82 were still missing, according to the state disaster management agency.
Authorities are still searching for 41 people who have not been seen since a flash flood swept away all 37 homes in Nu village in the mountainous northern province of Lao Cai early Tuesday, according to the provincial government.
Forty-six of its inhabitants have been confirmed dead.
In another Lao Cai village, 115 people previously listed as missing returned safely after taking shelter on a mountain for two days without power and telecommunications, the disaster management agency said.
They made tents out of bamboo and tarpaulins after seeing that their village was threatened by landslides, the agency added.
“We could only take some rice and food with us, and when we ran out of food, we would look for wild bamboo shoots to eat,” village chief Vang Seo Chu told the agency.
Hundreds of thousands of children have lost their homes and lack access to clean water, sanitation and healthcare, according to the UN children’s agency, Unicef.
Some 2 million children were left without access to education, psychosocial support and school feeding programmes as schools were damaged and hit by power and water shortages, he added.
“The actual number of schools and students affected in the worst-hit provinces is expected to be much higher,” he said.
UNICEF estimates that an initial $15 million is needed to meet the critical needs of affected children and families.
In Hanoi, flood waters on the Red River continued to recede and traffic was allowed on some bridges, the government said.
Vietnam’s insurance companies had received 7 trillion dong (equivalent to $285.36 million) in claims as of Thursday for damage caused by typhoons, floods and landslides, according to the Finance Ministry.
This content was originally published in Death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam exceeds 250; many remain missing on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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