Central Vietnam Floods Claim Three Lives and Displace Thousands

Severe flooding in central Vietnam has resulted in three fatalities and forced over 11,700 residents to evacuate their homes, TRTWorld reported yesterday.

Disaster officials reported that heavy rains from a recent storm have caused river levels to rise dangerously high, affecting Thanh Hoa province and neighboring Nghe An, where three people were swept away in flash floods.

Since Saturday, around 320 houses have been damaged, and more than 6,300 hectares of crops have been destroyed, with at least 40 schools impacted. This follows earlier devastation from Typhoon Yagi, which struck northern Vietnam earlier this month, leaving nearly 300 dead and causing $1.6 billion in damages. The typhoon also affected northern Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, resulting in 702 total fatalities. In Hanoi, homes remain partially submerged weeks after the storm, prompting farmers to harvest early in a desperate attempt to save their crops. Vietnam’s vulnerability to tropical storms is exacerbated by climate change, leading to more intense weather patterns.