HANOI, July 26, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – At least 29 people have been killed
and five others are missing after Typhoon Son Tinh triggered flooding in
Vietnam’s northern and central regions, local media reported on Thursday.
Of the dead, 15 were in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai, six
in the northern mountainous province of Son La, three in the northern midland
province of Phu Tho, three in the central province of Thanh Hoa, and the
others in the northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai and Hoa Binh, online
newspaper VietnamPlus under Vietnam News Agency reported.
Typhoons and tropical depressions are more likely to hit the northern part
of the sea at the beginning of this rainy season and will move towards the
south in late 2018, threatening to affect Vietnam’s central region.
In 2017, a record number of 16 typhoons and four low depressions occurred
in the sea. The typhoons claimed the lives of 386 people in Vietnam in the
year, damaged more than 600,000 houses and caused economic losses of about 60
trillion Vietnamese dong (2.6 billion U.S. dollars).