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| Hanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll nears 200 |
| 2024-09-12 |
| [NEWAGEBD.NET] Residents of Vietnam’s capital waded through waist-deep water on Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the area’s strongest typhoon in decades rose to at least 179, with neighbouring nations also enduring deadly flooding and landslides. Typhoon Yagi hit Vietnam at the weekend, carrying winds in excess of 149 kilometres per hour and a deluge of rain that has also brought destructive floods to northern areas of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. The Red River in Hanoi reached its highest level in 20 years on Wednesday, forcing residents to trudge through waist-deep brown water as they retrieved possessions from flooded homes. Others fashioned makeshift boats from whatever materials they could find. ’This was the worst flooding I have witnessed,’ said Nguyen Tran Van, 41, who has lived near the Red River in Hanoi for 15 years. ’I didn’t think the water would rise as quick as it did. I moved because if the water had risen just a bit higher, it would have been very difficult for us to leave,’ Van told AFP. |
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