Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 10 dead in Vietnam
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Hanoi - At least 10 people were killed and eight injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in northern province of Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
Six men were buried Wednesday following a landslide triggered by a day of heavy rain in the northern province of Lang Son, the National Committee for Search and Rescue said.
A five-year old girl was killed and her mother injured when their house in the province's Cao Loc District collapsed in the storm, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Thursday.
A couple in Hanoi were electrocuted by a falling power cable, and a woman in the central province of Nghe An was swept away by floodwaters and later found drowned, authorities said.
Nearly 800 houses were damaged and more than 42,000 hectares of rice crops submerged and damaged, the Flood Committee report said.
The storm brought rainfall of between 191-344 millimetres for the past three days in the northern region.
Authorities evacuated 55,000people in four northern coastal provinces ahead of the storm.
Typhoon Kalmaegi, the third tropical storm to hit Vietnam this year, weakened to a tropical depression early Wednesday, but still triggered torrential rains in the north of the country early Thursday.
DPA
