“I never thought my house would be under water this deep,” said Hoang Van Ty outside his home in Thai Nguyen province.
“My clothes and furniture are all under the water. Many things were floating around too but luckily I closed the doors so nothing was washed away.”
Thai Nguyen province is home to Samsung Electronics’ largest smartphone manufacturing plant in Vietnam. Flood waters have receded in some parts of the province, where clean-up efforts are now taking place.
The landslides and floods have inundated more than 200,000 hectares of rice and cash crop fields, according to the disaster management agency.
The typhoon has also disrupted power supplies and blew off the roofs of several factories in Haiphong and Quang Ninh provinces, halting their production.
Several countries, including Australia, Japan and the United States, have announced that they were sending aid to Vietnam.
FLOODING IN LAOS, THAILAND, MYANMAR
Yagi has also inundated a swathe of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, triggering deadly landslides and widespread river flooding.
The Mekong River Commission, the international body overseeing the crucial waterway, issued a flood warning on Thursday for the historic Laotian city of Luang Prabang.
The Mekong is expected to hit flood levels in Luang Prabang, a UNESCO world heritage site, on Thursday, the commission said in a bulletin.
In Thailand, the death toll has risen to eight, with four more deaths reported from a landslide in Chiang Mai province, according to provincial governor Nirat Pongsitthaworn.
Further north, Mae Sai district on the border with Myanmar is suffering its worst floods in 80 years, Suttipong Juljarern, a senior interior ministry official said in a statement.
Source: CNA
