Hanoi, Vietnam (AP) – the prolonged pouring rains from the former typhoon caused more floods and landslides in Vietnam, which led to an increase in the number of those killed to 19 in the country with a large number of missing.
Over the past 24 hours, the national weather agency has been announced on Tuesday by the National Agency for Weather, on Tuesday was reported by the rain of 30 centimeters (almost a foot) in some parts of Vietnam. He warned that heavy rains would continue.
Long rain caused sudden floods and landslides, which cut off roads and isolated communities from the northern mountains of the son of La and Lao Kai Province to the Central Province. The rivers, swollen from the rainfall, and the discharges of the dam caused wide floods and landslides in the north. The Tao -Bai River rose significantly higher than the emergency level overnight, sending water to a depth of a meter (3 feet) to the houses and forcing evacuation.
Many streets in the capital, Khana, were flooded, and the authorities warned that people close to the Red River, which passes through the city, should take precautions.
On Tuesday, state media said that the authorities were still looking for 13 missing people, including eight fishermen. Bulay has already called at least 20 deaths in the Philippines from Friday.
He settled in Vietnam at the beginning of Monday, and then lingered, which increased the danger.
According to experts, global warming makes storms similar to this stronger and moist, since warmer oceans provide tropical storms with a large amount of fuel, stimulate more intense winds, heavier precipitation and alternating precipitation throughout East Asia.
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