Nguyen Minh Hai, who fell into the flooded river, instructed state Vietnam Tv: “I used to be so scared after I fell down. I felt like I’ve simply escaped loss of life. I can’t swim and I assumed I’d die.”
Pham Truong Son, 50, instructed VN Specific that he was driving on the bridge on his motorbike when he heard a loud noise. Earlier than he knew what was taking place, he was falling into the river.
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“I felt like I used to be drowning on the backside of the river,” Son instructed the information outlet, including that he managed to swim and maintain on to a drifting banana tree to remain afloat earlier than he was rescued.
Dozens of companies in Haiphong province haven’t resumed manufacturing due to in depth injury to their factories, state newspaper Lao Dong reported. It mentioned the roofs of a number of factories had been blown aside and water seeped inside, damaging completed items and costly gear.
Some firms mentioned they nonetheless didn’t have electrical energy on Monday and that it might take at the very least a month to renew manufacturing.
Components of Haiphong and Quang Ninh provinces had been nonetheless with out energy on Monday.
The 2 provinces are industrial hubs, housing many factories that export items, together with EV maker VinFast and Apple suppliers Pegatrong and USI.
Authorities are nonetheless assessing the injury to factories, however preliminary estimates confirmed that almost 100 enterprises had been broken, leading to hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in losses, the newspaper reported.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the town of Haiphong on Sunday and permitted a $4.62 million ($6.93 million) bundle to assist the port metropolis get better.
Storm Yagi was the strongest hurricane to hit Vietnam in a long time, with winds as much as 149km/h when it made landfall on Saturday. It weakened on Sunday, however the nation’s meteorological company warned that persevering with downpours may trigger floods and landslides.
On Sunday, a landslide killed six individuals, together with an toddler, and injured 9 others in Sapa city, a preferred trekking base recognized for its terraced rice fields and mountains.
Total, state media reported 21 deaths and at the very least 299 individuals injured from the weekend.
Skies had been overcast within the capital, Hanoi, with occasional rain on Monday morning as staff cleared uprooted bushes, fallen billboards and toppled electrical energy poles. Heavy rain continued in north-western Vietnam and forecasters mentioned it may exceed 40 centimetres in locations. Yagi additionally broken agricultural land.
Earlier than hitting Vietnam, Yagi triggered at the very least 20 deaths within the Philippines final week and 4 deaths in southern China.
Chinese language authorities mentioned infrastructure losses throughout Hainan island province amounted to $US102 million, with 57,000 homes collapsed or broken, energy and water outages and roads broken or impassable resulting from fallen bushes. Yagi made a second landfall in Guangdong, a mainland province neighbouring Hainan, on Friday evening.
Storms like Storm Yagi are “getting stronger resulting from local weather change, primarily as a result of hotter ocean waters present extra power to gas the storms, resulting in elevated wind speeds and heavier rainfall,” mentioned Benjamin Horton, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore.
AP